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- Title
EXPLOSIVE DEBATES: DYNAMITE, TRADITION, AND THE STATE.
- Authors
Sutton, David
- Abstract
Since the early 1960s the ritual throwing of dynamite bombs at Easter has become a regular practice on the island of Kalymnos in the Eastern Aegean. Although this practice cuts across most social divisions on the island, its significance and value are hotly debated by Kalymnians. In this article I examine both the explicit debate over whether dynamite throwing is or is not a "Kalymnian custom," and more implicit discourses that concern Kalymnian attitudes towards the Greek State and other outside forces. I suggest that both explicit and implicit discourses are part of a process by which Kalymnians are attempting to define their identity and "distinctiveness" in relationship to what they see as homogenizing forces of "modernity."
- Subjects
KALYMNOS (Greece : Municipality); GREECE; RITUAL; DYNAMITE; ATTITUDE (Psychology); MODERNITY
- Publication
Anthropological Quarterly, 1996, Vol 69, Issue 2, p66
- ISSN
0003-5491
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3318034