Awards

• Winner of Edmund Keeley Book Prize 2010
• Winner of Prose Award in Archeology and Anthropology 2010
• Winner of Victor Turner Prize 2011

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Intimate, fascinating, and inventively analytic ... A worthy and brilliant successor to Panourgia's much acclaimed Fragments of Death, Fables of Identity: An Athenian Anthropography. -George E. Marcus, University of California, Irvine Columbia anthropology professor Neni Panourgia's new project takes the concept of an 'interactive conversation' a step further. The recent online release of Dangerous Citiznes: The Greek Left and the Terror of the State by far exceeds the publication of the book by the same name in being revolutionary. Instead of being your average Kindle e-book or online PDF, the new Website is a freely accessed interactive, multimedia text that exemplifies an exciting but problematic pathway for published scholarship. ... An anthropological approach to the G reek state's response to the Greek left. Dangerous Citizens is a simultaneous indictment of the liberal nation-state's blithe pretensions and willful self-ignorance; of the political and discursive relegation of modern Greek history to the historical margins of the colonial civilizing mission; and of inhuman simplifications of the past everywhere. In an evocation of Oedipus that owes nothing to crass invocations of continuity with the ancient world, Neni PanourgiNB writes with the ethical passion of a partial witness who nonetheless claims no special privilege other than that of the common humanity denied by the state to those it repeatedly configures as its enemies. In posing this appealingly controversial challenge to the liberal self-imagination, moreover, PanourgiNB -- who has honed her distinctive writing idiom into a compelling mix of careful scholarship and stylistic adventurism -- calls anthropology itself to account.Michael Herzfeld

Intimate, fascinating, and inventively analytic.... A worthy and brilliant successor to Panourgia's much-acclaimed Fragments of Death, Fables of Identity: An Athenian Anthropography. - George E. Marcus, University of California, Irvine A profound anthropological insight into the cultural ethos of the Greek families, deeply divided by brutal political conflict. - Michael Lowy, Emeritus Research Director, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS, Paris, France

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Neni Panourgiá is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. She has published Fragments of Death, Fables of Identity: An Athenian Anthropography, winner of the Grand Jury Prize of the International Society of Ethnohistory and co-winner of the Chicago Folklore Prize. She has co-edited, with George E. Marcus, the volume Ethnographica Moralia: Experiments in Interpretive Anthropology (Fordham).

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