Director:
Efthimios Papataxiarchis
Address:
ATE Building, 1st Floor
Telephone: 22510 - 36330
E-mail:
ethnolab@aegean.gr
The Laboratory of
Ethnography is the most dynamic institutional base of ethnographic
research in Greece. Together with the two postgraduate programs of the
Department (the one on ''Social and Historical Anthropology'' and the
other on ''Gender and Women'') it has provided the context for the
realization of numerous research projects, doctoral theses and
postdoctoral researches. Some of these projects and doctoral theses have
been funded by the European Union primarily in the context of the
"Pythagoras" post doctoral research program and the "Heraclitus" program
for doctoral research.
The
ethnographic research that is conducted in the context of the Laboratory
focuses primarily but not exclusively in Greece and covers a wide range
of subjects including the follow:
-Migration and processes of cultural
differentiation
-Politics of local, ethnic and national identities
-Gender, kinship and sociality
-Body and sexuality
-Religion and ritual practices
-Co-operative businesses in tourism
-Ethnographies of the school.
The Laboratory keeps a specialized library and has
currently completed the ''Archive of Greek Ethnography'', an electronic
database that collects and files published ethnographic materials
(including theses, books, articles, etc.) on Greece. It regularly
organizes academic conferences, workshops and research seminars. In the
past years it has collaborated with the National Centre for Social
Research and with research groups from other university departments.
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