Iron in the Soul: Displacement, Livelihood and Health in Cyprus

by Peter Loizos

Book Overview

In his vivid, lively account of how Greek Cypriot villagers coped with a thirty-year displacement, Peter Lo zos follows a group of people whom he encountered as prosperous farmers in 1968, yet found as disoriented refugees when revisiting in 1975. By providing a forty year in-depth perspective unusual in the social sciences, this study yields unconventional insights into the deeper meanings of displacement. It focuses on reconstruction of livelihoods,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845454448
• ISBN13: 9781845454449
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"