On ambivalent nativism: Hegemony, photography, and "recalcitrant alterity" in Sphakia, Crete

American Ethnologist

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 56-75

  Kalantzis, Konstantinos ^a  

^a Independent Scholar   (Greece)

Author keywords

Agency; Greece; Imagination; Orientalism; Photography; Power; Tradition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894077785     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/amet.12060     Document Type: Article

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