@inbook{e1f40e8af724446d9a9051089dd13f7a,
title = "Crossing European boundaries: Beyond conventional geographical categories",
abstract = "If anthropology represents an {\textquoteleft}uncomfortable discipline{\textquoteright}, as Firth (1981: 200) phrased it over twenty years ago, perhaps there are grounds for suggesting that Europe has played the role of the {\textquoteleft}problematic subject{\textquoteright} within the {\textquoteleft}uncomfortable discipline{\textquoteright}. As an area of anthropological research, it is not as {\textquoteleft}exotic{\textquoteright} as the locales most anthropologists prefer, and its appearance in the canons of major ethnographic sites has been relatively slow. As Parman (1998: 2) wrote, Europe has been deployed {\textquoteleft}as a conceptual construct, as a vehicle of Occidentalism, to define and enforce the boundaries and hierarchical inequalities of Occident and Orient{\textquoteright}, and served...",
author = "Jaro Stacul and Christina Moutsou and Helen Kopnina",
year = "2006",
month = dec,
doi = "10.2307/j.ctt1x76dt9.5",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781845451509",
series = "New Directions in Anthropology",
publisher = "Berghahn Books",
pages = "1--19",
editor = "Jaro Stacul and Christina Moutsou and Helen Kopnina",
booktitle = "Crossing European Boundaries",
address = "United Kingdom",
edition = "1st",
}