Efi Avdela, Dimitris Arvanitakis, Eliza A. Delveroudi, Evgenios Matthiopoulos, Socrates Petmezas and Tassos Sakellaropoulos, eds., Φυλετικές θεωρίες στην Ελλάδα: Προσλήψεις και χρήσεις στις επιστήμες, την πολιτική, τη λογοτεχνία και την ιστορία της τέχνης κατά τον 19ο και τον 20ό αιώνα [Racial theories in Greece: perception and use in science, politics, literature and art history in the 19th and 20th centuries]

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Published: Jun 3, 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/historein.20182
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racism Paleo-anthropology Marxism Darwinism eugenics
Yannis Hamilakis
Brown University
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8392-9450
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Review of Efi Avdela, Dimitris Arvanitakis, Eliza Anna Delveroudi, Evgenios Matthiopoulos, Socrates Petmezas, and Tassos Sakellaropoulos, eds., Φυλετικές θεωρίες στην Ελλάδα: Προσλήψεις και χρήσεις στις επιστήμες, την πολιτική, τη λογοτεχνία και την ιστορία της τέχνης κατά τον 19ο και τον 20ό αιώνα [Racial theories in Greece: perception and use in science, politics, literature and art history in the 19th and 20th centuries].
Irakleio: Crete University Press and Philosophy School of the University of Crete Press, 2017. 520 pp.

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Author Biography
Yannis Hamilakis, Brown University
Yannis Hamilakis is Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Modern Greek Studies at Brown University. His main research and teaching interests are archaeological theory, the politics of the past, nationalism and colonialism, and the archaeology of the contemporary with a current emphasis on forced and undocumented migration. Among his books are the following: The Nation and its Ruins: Antiquity, Archaeology, and National Imagination in Greece (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), Archaeology and the Senses: Human Experience, Memory, and Affect (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), and more recently, as editor, The New Nomadic Age: Archaeologies of Forced and Undocumented Migration (Sheffield: Equinox, 2018).
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