A portion of Chapter 5, “1946–1949: Emphýlios,” was published in an earlier form as “Desert Islands: Ransom of Humanity,” Public Culture 20 (Spring 2008): 395–421. The section of Chapter 8 entitled “Freud's Remnants” was published in an earlier form as “Fragments of Oedipus: Anthropology at the Edges of History,” in Neni Panourgiá and George Marcus, eds., Ethnographica Moralia: Experiments in Interpretive Anthropology (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008), 97–112.
I have profited greatly from having presented this material in various forms when I was invited to give lectures and seminars at the following anthropology departments: Princeton University, Rutgers University, New York University, Goldsmiths College, the London School of Economics, Duke University, University of California at Irvine, University of Michigan (with the Department of Classics), and the Department of History, Archaeology, and Social Anthropology (IAKA) at the University of Thessaly. I also want to thank the colleagues who invited me to present my work outside of the context of anthropology: in particular, Eleni Varikas during my stay as University Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Paris VIII, St Denis in the spring semester of 2007; Janet Halley and Philomela Tsoukala at the Harvard European Law Association and the European Law Research Center at Harvard University; and Ali Behdad at the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. Equally important have been my interactions with my colleagues and fellow members on the Advisory Board of the Anthropology Section at the New York Academy of Sciences, especially Jane Schneider and William Mitchell, who read parts of this book in manuscript form and offered invaluable comments. I would like to thank my colleagues at the NYAS for providing me with a most supportive and collegial environment.
Along the long way that this book has followed, I have been very fortunate to have the ideas in it hammered out in discussions with many friends and colleagues, both from within and from outside the fields of anthropology and Modern Greek Studies. We did not always agree; I did not always convince them; and they did not always convince me. But I learned from their comments, and I hope that I have reciprocated. My deep thanks go to João Biehl, Carole Browner, Elizabeth Ann Davis, David Sutton, Constance Sutton, Antonio Lauria, Yopie Prins, Edmund Burke III, Webb Keane, Maria Couroucli, Michael Herzfeld, George Marcus, Vassilios Lambropoulos, Artemis Leontis, Thomas Gallant, John Iatrides, Margaret Kenna, Kirstie McClure, Susan Slyomovics, Sherry Ortner, Vincent Crapanzano, Michael Wood, Yael Navaro-Yashin, Dimitris Papanikolaou, Steven Reyna, Nina Glick-Schiller, Steven Lukes, Maria Koundoura, William Ayers, Bernadine Dorn, Chris Fuller, Harold Evjen, Rashid Khalidi, Dimitris Vardoulakis, Ilias Nikolakopoulos, Hagen Fleischer, Abdellah Hammoudi, Sondra Hale, Dusan Bjelic, Obrad Savic, Andreas Kalyvas, Kath Weston, and the late Begoña Aretxaga and Clifford Geertz. Adam Liptak, the Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times, tracked down articles and information that had appeared in the paper and discussed with me the implications of the Welch assassination by 17N for the enactment of legislation protecting covert agents in the United States. Lawrence Downes, of the New York Times, was kind enough to discuss with me the production of Oedipus Rex by the inmates at Sing Sing. David Binder, the New York Times correspondent to the Balkans, talked to me about his meeting with Markos Vafeiades and his experience of Greece and the Balkans in the 1960s. Dorothy Lauterstein Doppstadt read the manuscript and offered me her critical journalistic eye.