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Towards an Ethnographic Phenomenology of the Greek Spirit

This article is an attempt to question the literalistic interpretation of nationalist ideologies, especially that of Greece, as accurate representations of either the cultural and social experiences of citizens or the practical experiences of administrators. The force of such ideologies in Greece owes a great deal to the historical and political specificities of the country's domination by powers determined to use it as a frontier of European civilization and supported by local elites in that endeavour. Concealment - in a range of cultural activities from religion to architecture - permits the expression of alternative notions of identity, entailing the recognition of very different histories; historic conservation is an especially interesting battleground for such contestation of the official past. A comparison of Greece with Italy highlights contrasting dynamics in the production of local and national histories.