MGSA Survey of University Faculty and Administrators

Dr Margaret E. Kenna

Reader in Anthropology

University of Wales Swansea (United Kingdom)       

Department: Sociology & Anthropology, School of Social Sciences and International Development

 

I. Degrees

Ph.D. 1971 University of Kent at Canterbury (U.K.)

II. Areas of Specialization

Kinship, Ritual, Migration, Tourism

III. Courses Taught in Modern Greek Studies

SSA206/ SSA306 ‘Greece, Cyprus & the Hellenic Diaspora’

IV. Principal Publications (Greek words are given in transliteration)

1976. "Houses, fields and graves: property and ritual obligations on a Greek island", Ethnology XV,1:21-34

 

1983. "Institutional and transformational migration and the politics of community: Greek internal migrants and their Migrants' Association", European Journal of Sociology 24:263-287

 

1985. "Icons in theory and practice: an Orthodox Christian example", History of  Religions  24,4:345-368

 

1992. "Changing places and altered perspectives: research on a Greek island in the 60s and in the 80s", Ch 9, pp147-162 in: J Okely & H Callaway (eds) Anthropology and autobiography, Routledge (ASA Monographs 29). ISSN: 0-415-05189-4

 

1993. "Return migrants and tourism development: an example from the Cyclades", Journal of Modern Greek Studies 11: 60-74. ISSN: 0738-1727

 

1995. "Saying `no' in Greece: some preliminary thoughts on hospitality, gender and the evil eye", pp133-146 in: S Damianakos et al (eds) Les amis et les autres: Melanges en l'honneur de John Peristiany =Brothers and Others: essays in honour of John Peristiany, Athens: EKKE (Greek National Centre of Social Research). ISBN:960-7093-33-X

 

2002. “Heroines, hysterics and ordinary women: representations of Greek women political exiles”, South European Society and Politics 2001, 6 (3): 1-29. ISSN: 1360-8746

 

2001a. The Social Organisation of Exile: Greek Political Detainees in the 1930s, Harwood Academic Publishers, 2001. ISBN 90-5823-143-7.

 

2001b. Greek Island Life: Fieldwork on Anafi, Harwood Academic Publishers, 2001.  ISBN90-5823-141-0 .

 

2003. "The piglets that fell from the sky: some cautionary tales about Greek statistics", Journal of Mediterranean Studies 13 (1): 21-44. ISSN: 1016-3476.

V. Office Address

SSSID,

Keir Hardie Building

University of Wales Swansea

SWANSEA SA2 8PP

Wales, U.K.

 

Office Telephone (F)=Fax

00-44-1792-602130

Fax: 00-44-1792-295750

 

Electronic Address

[email protected]

VI. Home Address

(not given)

 

Home Telephone (F)=Fax

(not given)

 

VII. Comments and Additional Information

 

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