Review of Nikos Potamianos, “Της αναιδείας θεάματα”: Κοινωνική ιστορία της Αποκριάς στην Αθήνα, 1800–1940 [Spectacles of insolence: The social history of carnival in Athens, 1800–1940]

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Published: Dec 29, 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/historein.28056
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Carnival Athens Apokria
Katerina Sergidou
Universidad del Pais Vasco (UPV-EHU); Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2351-7195
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Review of Nikos Potamianos, “Της αναιδείας θεάματα”: Κοινωνική ιστορία της Αποκριάς στην Αθήνα, 1800–1940 [Spectacles of insolence: The social history of carnival in Athens, 1800–1940]. Iraklio: Crete University Press, 2020. 310 pp.

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Author Biography
Katerina Sergidou, Universidad del Pais Vasco (UPV-EHU); Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences

Katerina Sergidou is a Cypriot social anthropologist with a background in history-archaeology and in communication and cultural studies. Since 2017 she has been elaborating a jointly supervised doctoral dissertation in feminist and gender studies at the Department of Social Anthropology and Philosophy of Values/University of the Basque Country (UPV) and the Department of Communication Media and Culture of Panteion University as a fellow of the Greek State Scholarship Foundation (IKY). Her dissertation is on women’s participation in the carnival of Cádiz (Andalucía), through a feminist-anthropological perspective. She has undertaken research in Greece and the Spanish state, which has resulted in several journal articles, edited volumes, presentations at international conferences and public writing. Her research interests include contemporary carnival festivities, feminist methodologies in social research, popular art and politics, the concept of feminist hegemony, feminist activism, and feminist writing.

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