Photographing the Past:

Old Pictures and New Knowledge of Anafi

Lecture by

Professor Margaret Kenna

Friday, 19 November 2010

7.00 p,m.

at

The Hellenic Centre

16-18 Paddington Street

London W1U 5AS

Margaret Kenna is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at Swansea University. She has carried out fieldwork for over forty years with the islanders and migrants of Anafi, particularly on the topics of kinship, inheritance and ritual, and also migration and tourism. She is both an honorary member of the Anafiot Migrants Association and an honorary citizen of the island and has published many articles about her research on the island and among the migrant community. Her book, Greek Island Life: Fieldwork on Anafi'(2001, now out of print), records in detail her original fieldwork in the 1960s, but the final chapters bring the material up to date. She has also investigated the lives of the political dissidents who were exiled to the island in the 1930s, through detailed examination of an archive of glass negatives, and handwritten newspapers produced by their commune. A book about the Anafi exiles, The Social Organization of Exile, 2001, has been translated into Greek and published by Ekdoseis Alexandreia, 2004.