Cypriot Cultural Details

Author : Iosif Hadjikyriako,Mia Gaia Trentin
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785700699

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Cypriot Cultural Details by Iosif Hadjikyriako,Mia Gaia Trentin Pdf

There are countless references to Cyprus in Venice: in palaces, primarily that of Queen Caterina Corner, in the church of Saints Giovanni e Paolo, where the skin of Mark Antonius Bragadin (the staunch defender of Famagusta) is guarded, in the spices, and especially in the wine of Cyprus (Commandaria), that is today still recalled in Venetian sayings. The Venetian past, too, has many references in Cyprus where evidence is focused on the fortresses and fortifications of Nicosia, Famagusta and Kerynia and in the lions that adorn them as well as in traditional dishes and language. The papers presented here have been selected from 30 given at the 10th Annual Meeting of young researchers in Cypriot archaeology (POCA 10), held in Venice where it celebrated two important events: the 500th anniversary of the death of Caterina Cornaro (1454–1510) and the twinning of the cities of Venice and Larnaca. Papers cover a wide range of subjects reflecting the many centuries of trade in products (especially textiles) and the cultural exchange in ideas, religious practices and people between the island and City at various times from prehistory to the Ottoman period. Archaeological and historical data are brought together to showcase recent research.

Author : Iosif Hadjikyriako,Mia Gaia Trentin
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785700675

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Cypriot Cultural Details by Iosif Hadjikyriako,Mia Gaia Trentin Pdf

There are countless references to Cyprus in Venice: in palaces, primarily that of Queen Caterina Corner, in the church of Saints Giovanni e Paolo, where the skin of Mark Antonius Bragadin (the staunch defender of Famagusta) is guarded, in the spices, and especially in the wine of Cyprus (Commandaria), that is today still recalled in Venetian sayings. The Venetian past, too, has many references in Cyprus where evidence is focused on the fortresses and fortifications of Nicosia, Famagusta and Kerynia and in the lions that adorn them as well as in traditional dishes and language. The papers presented here have been selected from 30 given at the 10th Annual Meeting of young researchers in Cypriot archaeology (POCA 10), held in Venice where it celebrated two important events: the 500th anniversary of the death of Caterina Cornaro (1454–1510) and the twinning of the cities of Venice and Larnaca. Papers cover a wide range of subjects reflecting the many centuries of trade in products (especially textiles) and the cultural exchange in ideas, religious practices and people between the island and City at various times from prehistory to the Ottoman period. Archaeological and historical data are brought together to showcase recent research.

Author : Culture Smart!,Constantine Buhayer
Publisher : Kuperard
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-14
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781787022614

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Cyprus - Culture Smart! by Culture Smart!,Constantine Buhayer Pdf

Don't just see the sights—get to know the people. For much of its history Cyprus was regarded as the Cinderella of empires--beautiful, abused, isolated. Today, the island is divided between the Greek-Cypriot south and the Turkish occupied north. However, both sides take pride in a shared "Cypriotness," and are united in their common hopes, pain, memories, music, excellent cuisine, rich history, and majestic landscape. Culture Smart! Cyprus equips you with essential information on the history, values, and attitudes of the people you will meet, their customs and traditions, and offers tips on etiquette and socializing. Have a richer and more meaningful experience abroad through a better understanding of the local culture. Chapters on history, values, attitudes, and traditions will help you to better understand your hosts, while tips on etiquette and communicating will help you to navigate unfamiliar situations and avoid faux pas.

Author : Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire (Bruxelles)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art objects, Cypriot
ISBN : 9963364551

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Ancient Cyprus : cultures in dialogue ; exhibition organized by the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, on the occasion of Cyprus’ presidency of the Council of the European Union 2012 ; Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels, October 31, 2012 – February 17, 2013 ; exhibition catalogue by Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire (Bruxelles) Pdf

From the contents:0- The birth of Cypriot archaeology0- The ancient history of Cyprus0- Thematic essays0- Catalogue00Exhibition: Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels, Belgium (31.10.2012-17.02.2013).

Author : Polly Lyssiotis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Cyprus
ISBN : OSU:32435081056699

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About Cyprus by Polly Lyssiotis Pdf

This reference publication provides the reader with information on Cyprus primarily through the work carried out by the various government departments. It also offers useful information on the main fields of activity of life on the island, its history, its culture and the Cyprus problem.

Author : Artemis Georgiou
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Archaeology and history
ISBN : 1842174401

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Cyprus, an Island Culture by Artemis Georgiou Pdf

This volume, introduced by Edgar Peltenburg, presents the results of latest research by young scholars working on aspects of Cypriot archaeology from the Bronze Age to the Venetian period. It presents a diversity excavation, material culture, iconographic and linguistic evidence to explore the themes of ancient landscape, settlement and society; religion, cult and iconography; and Ancient Cyprus and the Mediterranean.

Author : Vassos Karageorghis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 996369165X

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Ancient Cyprus by Vassos Karageorghis Pdf

Author : Emilios A. Solomou,Andreas Karyos,Maria Hadjiathanasiou
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Cyprus
ISBN : 0755640667

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Colonial Cyprus by Emilios A. Solomou,Andreas Karyos,Maria Hadjiathanasiou Pdf

"Colonial Cyprus is an original, innovative and timely study on the cultural history of Cyprus under British rule, offering a new interpretative framework for studying the colonial past of Cyprus. The book focuses on the cultural dimension of the island's colonial experience and demonstrates the crucial, but in this case understudied, significance of culture in Cyprus and how this has affected the current identity of the island. It is the first volume to address different aspects of the island's cultural life from 1878, when the island changed hands from Ottoman to British rule, to 1960 when the Republic of Cyprus came into existence. The book presents a comprehensive survey of culture in colonial Cyprus, covering such aspects as photography, architecture, literature, art, cultural policy, advertisement, fashion, antiquities and archaeology, public gardens, environmental commons, and sports clubs. Individual chapters bring to light previously unpublished source material in Greek and English, written and visual, from state and private archives and collections. Using cross-disciplinary analytical tools - from the fields of imperial and colonial history, politics, cultural studies, media studies, communication studies, and history - this book provides much needed insight into the multi-faceted cultural life of colonial Cyprus"--

Author : Elena Stylianou,Evanthia Tselika,Gabriel Koureas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781350198654

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Contemporary Art from Cyprus by Elena Stylianou,Evanthia Tselika,Gabriel Koureas Pdf

To what extent does locality influence contemporary art? Can any particular artistic practices be defined as uniquely Cypriot? And does art from Cyprus transcend Western boundaries once it enters the global art scene? This volume uses Cyprus as a case study for the exploration of notions of identity, regionalism, and the global and local in contemporary art practice; it is not, therefore, a complete historiography of contemporary Cypriot art. Rather, this critical text provides a theoretical and historical framework that frames and contextualizes art practices from Cyprus, while always relating these back to the international art world. Numerous current and pressing issues-all relevant beyond Cyprus-are investigated in this book including, but not limited to, art as capital, the emergence of the “periphery”, the importance of thriving localities, issues of memory and memorialization, archaeology, artists' identities, conflict and politics, social engagement, gender politics, and such curatorial alternatives as artist-run spaces. In doing all of this, Contemporary Art from Cyprus not only bears on current and future art practices in this region but highlights the importance of Cypriot art in a global context too.

Author : Lisa Dikomitis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Cultural pluralism
ISBN : 0755619692

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Cyprus and Its Places of Desire by Lisa Dikomitis Pdf

Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- Preliminary Notes -- A Village in Paradise -- Introduction: An Island in Transition -- Chapter One: Nothing Compares to Our Village -- Chapter Two: A Crack in the Border -- Chapter Three: Pilgrims and Tourists -- Chapter Four: Under One Roof -- Chapter Five: This is Our Village -- Chapter Six: Refugees and Locals -- Places of Desire -- Notes -- Bibliography 2 -- Index.

Author : Lawrence Durrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Cyprus
ISBN : 1604190043

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Bitter Lemons by Lawrence Durrell Pdf

In Bitter Lemons, Durrell tells the perceptive, often humorous, story of his experiences on Cyprus between 1953 and 1956-first as a visitor, then as a householder and teacher, and finally as Press Advisor to a government coping with armed rebellion. Here are unforgettable pictures of the sunlit villages and people, the ancient buildings, mountains and sea-and the somber political tragedy that finally engulfed the island.

Author : Rebecca Bryant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Cyprus
ISBN : 0755620755

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Imagining the Modern by Rebecca Bryant Pdf

"This book argues that two conflicting styles of nationalist imagination led to the violent rending of Cyprus in 1974 and sustained that division over decades. Based on research in both southern and northern Cyprus, the work demonstrates how the conflict emerged through the Cypriot's encounters with modernity under British colonialism, and through a consequent re-imagining of the body politic in a new world in which Cypriots were defined as part of a European periphery. Rebecca Bryant demonstrates how Muslims and Christians were transformed into Turks and Greeks, and what it meant epistemologically, ontollogically and politically when they were."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Author : Beatrice Pestarino
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004520431

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Kypriōn Politeia, the Political and Administrative Systems of the Classical Cypriot City-Kingdoms by Beatrice Pestarino Pdf

What kind of society would you face if you travelled to Cyprus in the 5th-4th cent. BC? This is the first book which analyses in detail the politico-administrative system of Classical Cyprus through the study of inscriptions written in different languages.

Author : Jane Chick,Richard Maguire
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443812795

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Approaching Cyprus by Jane Chick,Richard Maguire Pdf

Does the sea separate or connect? Are islands isolated or are they the stepping stones of connectivity? The Mediterranean is an all-but closed sea of seas, of marine locales around which ‘its inhabitants live like ants and frogs around a pond’. Cyprus, at its eastern end, is tucked between Asia Minor to the North, the Levant to the east, to Africa further south, and the wider Mediterranean to the west. From its vantage point, this island panopticon established connections across the Mediterranean in which it was either incorporated or remote in proportion to its integration into a variety of networks of exchange. The seventeen chapters in this volume explore aspects of the relationship between the island as an immutable geographical entity and its surrounding sea as an essentially transactional space. The chapters are grouped under four headings: Approaching Cyprus – Sea and Overseas; Artefacts – Production and Function; Sacralities – Practice and Setting; and finally, Collections – Private and Public. Chapters range from the Late Bronze Age to the twentieth century, and from Greece, the Aegean, Syro-Palestine, Egypt to Lusignan France. Approaching Cyprus describes and evokes a multi-directional convergence on the island in terms of both a physical and an intellectual journey – an inside viewed from an outside through the research of an international group of scholars, each of whom, however varied their viewpoint, period and topic, offers a contribution to our wider understanding of this remarkable island.

Author : Giorgos Papantoniou
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004224353

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Religion and Social Transformations in Cyprus by Giorgos Papantoniou Pdf

By focusing on religion, this monograph represents the first extended attempt to explore how the socio-cultural infrastructure of Cyprus was affected by the transition from segmented administration by many Cypriot kings to the island-wide government by a foreign Ptolemaic correspondent.