Dr Aris Anagnostopoulos

Archaeology
University of Southampton
Avenue Campus
Highfield
Southampton
SO17 1BF

Position: Research fellow
Research group: Theory, Representation and Cultural Politics

Research interests

I am a post-doctoral Research Fellow, collaborating with Yannis Hamilakis in the Kalaureia research program. My task is to conduct full-time ethnographic work in Poros, Greece. I am investigating local perceptions and reactions to the archaeological excavation conducted there by the Swedish Institute. The ultimate goal of this research is to create a public archaeology program that will successfully address the issues and peculiarities of local and trans-local implications of archaeology in Poros.

My background is in social anthropology, but I also hold an MA in history from the University of Leicester. My PhD in Social Anthropology, awarded from the University of Kent, addresses the creation of public and private space in Crete at the beginning of the 20th century. In my work, I investigate the historical reasons that contributed to the purported insular particularity of modern Cretans.

My larger interests are state formation, political and economic anthropology, the uses and abuses of history, gender representations and the anthropology of the senses. I have a tremendous interest in the anthropology of literature and in literature in general.

I have worked in film production, most notably as a researcher and script-writer for the documentary ‘Knossos, the Labyrinth of Myths’, which was aired on Greek National Television and won the first prize for script at the 6th international meeting for Archaeological documentary in Thessaloniki in 2006. I am also one of the authors of the ‘Kalaureia in the Present' photographic blog.

 

Publications from e–Prints Soton

	Hamilakis, Yannis and Anagnostopoulos, Aris (eds.) (2009) Archaeological ethnographies. Public Archaeology, 8, (2-3)
	Hamilakis, Yannis and Anagnostopoulos, Aris (2009) What is archaeological ethnography? Public Archaeology, 8, (2-3), 65-87. (doi:10.1179/175355309x457150)
	Hamilakis, Yannis, Anagnostopoulos, Aris and Ifantidis, Fotis (2009) Postcards from the edge of time: archaeology, photography, archaeological ethnography. Public Archaeology, 8, (2-3), 283-309. (doi:10.1179/175355309x457295)