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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- PART I: Interfaces -- 1. On board/on border -- The ethnographic miniatures -- Theory in practice -- 2. Dialogue/the dialogical -- Appendix I: On performance: theater, film versus ritual -- Appendix II: The public face of anthropology -- PART II: Death drives in the city -- 3. Theatrocracy and memory in austerity times -- Awakening -- Third stream memory -- The aperceptual present -- Theatrokratia and citizenship -- The cartographic order -- Silent détournement: from cities of the dead to death in the city -- Space profaned -- Gendering the sacred -- The pre-secular modern -- Grave selfies -- The second life -- 4. Modern cities of silence: Disasters, nature and the petrified bodies of history -- The city of statues -- Excavating private memory -- Bodies in ruins -- The city without walls -- The object(s) of memory: managing the uninheritable -- Re-membering the present -- Ruins and ashes: re-witnessing the natural -- Losing place -- 5. Wounded borders: The arrival of the 'Barbarians' -- Europe besieged by the border -- New space of flows -- 6. Eros and thanatos in transnational Europe -- Medicine, information and body consumption: Gioconda -- Fascination beneath the surface -- The transnationalized body -- Uncertain bodies -- Older dramas -- Postscript: Eros and thanatos re-covered -- PART III: Senses revisited -- 7. Touch and taste -- Touch/tactility - a backstage -- Touching taste and memory - the play -- Aftertastes -- 8. Border echoes -- The sob -- From the borders of the inside -- Tactile sounds -- PART IV: Sensing the invisible -- 9. Divination, media and the networked body of modernity -- Telepresencing theodicy -- Evil eye and somatic witnessing -- Shadow modernity -- Divination and the involuntary body -- The spell.

Sensing the Everyday is a multi-sited ethnographic inquiry based on fieldwork experiences and sharp everyday observations in the era of crisis. Blending sophisticated theoretical analyses with original ethnographic data, C. Nadia Seremetakis journeys from Greece to Vienna, Edinburgh, Albania, Ireland, and beyond. Social crisis is seen through its transnational multiplication of borders, thresholds and margins, divisions, and localities as linguistic, bodily, sensory, and performative sites of the quotidian in process. The book proposes everyday life not as a sanctuary or as a recessed zone distanced from the structural violence of the state and the market, but as a condition of im/possibility, unable to be lived as such, yet still an encapsulating habitus. There the impossibility of the quotidian is concretized as fragmentary and fragmenting material forces. Seremetakis weaves together topics as diverse as borders and bodies, history and death, the earth and the senses, language and affect, violence and public culture, the sociality of dreaming, and the spatialization of the traumatic, in a journey through antiphonic witnessing and memory. Her montage explores various ways of juxtaposing reality with the irreal and the imaginal to expose the fictioning of social reality. The book locates her approach to ethnography and the 'native ethnographer' in wider anthropological and philosophical debates, and proposes a dialogical interfacing of theory and practice, the translation of academic knowledge to public knowledge

This book engages young scholars, teachers and students in a critical dialogue with past and present directions in cultural-historical studies. More particularly, it prepares prospective anthropologists, as well as readers interested in human cultures for understanding basic theoretical and methodological ethnographic principles and pursuing further what has been known as cultural anthropological perspectives. The book discusses key, field-based studies in the discipline and places them in dialogue with related studies in social history, linguistics, philosophy, literature, and photography, among others.

The story at hand is the spread of little street memorials for the dead in the Greek urbanscape during the current socioeconomic crisis. These memorials point to a third-stream anamnesis: memory focused on the historicity of the everyday that the dominant public culture, split between European cosmopolitanism and the Greek archaic, marginalizes. I am interested in the ethnography of the every day that lacks the securities, facilities, and utilities of a homogenizing and synchronizing context. In the agonistic interplay between the macrological and the everyday, time and space are intrinsically disjointed, and this is refracted in language, vision, and the senses. This experimental ethnography attempts to account for some of these effects as they continue to multiply within the present.

ABSTRACTSMobile populations of Albanians have made the Greek borders the site where identity is played out and defined. At the same time, media panic stories about disease crossing Greek frontiers point to the borders as infection: they leak not only people but contamination. Yet these borders are bidirectional, and create risks for the Albanians as well. Their continued migrations in the face of risk point to the borders as process. These are borders in pain, borders that ache and leak.