The Heart Grown Bitter: A Chronicle of Cypriot War Refugees
Cambridge University Press, 11/5/1981
EAN 9780521285469, ISBN10: 0521285461
Paperback, 232 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm
Language: English
In August 1974 most of the inhabitants of Argaki, a prosperous Cypriot village, fled from their homes in the face of an advancing army. In a matter of days they had become war refugees. This book is an account of their experiences before, during and after their flight from their village. Peter Loizos had made an anthropological study of Argaki before 1974 and is also related to some of its families. This has enabled him to combine the methods and approaches of an anthropologist with the personal insight of a family member and his account of the villagers' experiences is moving, vivid and sympathetic. No anthropologist has ever previously recorded so poignantly the experiences of the victims of war; this compassionate and sensitive book will be of compelling interest to all readers concerned about the aftermath of war and the problems of refugees.
List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I. Peace
1. Arrival
August 1966
2. Argaki
1900–1970
3. Portents
1973
Part II. War
4. Coup d'etat
July 1974
5. War
July–August 1974
6. Flight
August 1974
Part III. Diaspora
7. Refugees
August 1974–April 1975
8. Politics
August 1974–December 1975
9. Bearings
April–December 1975
Appendices
1. Methods
2. Comparisons
3. Fragments
List of works cited
Index.