Associate Professor in Social Anthropology,
University of Crete, Department of Sociology
Contact
Department of Sociology, Gallos Campus, 74100 Rethymno Greece
Tel.+302831077127 & +302831077474
e-mail: tsantirop@uoc.gr
Office hours: Thursday 12:00-14:00
Education
2000: Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Aegean, Subject of Ph.D Thesis: “The Blood-feud in Central Mountainous Crete. Inter groups Conflicts and Social Organization”.
1991: M.Sc. in Anthropology, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Aegean.
1989: B.A. in Philosophy and Social Sciences (majoring Social Sciences), University of Crete, 1989
Research Interests/Research experience
- a) Fieldwork research on pastoral communities of Crete focusing on the social transformation of agricultural and pastoral societies. The blood feud as a form of social conflict is one of the main interests and the subject of his PhD thesis.
- b) Fieldwork research on pastoral cultural heritage at the Ida (Psiloritis) mountain in Crete. Project: IDAology (https://idaology.gr/).
- c) Fieldwork research on maritime societies of North Aegean focusing on social memory and the transformations of maritime cultural heritage. Project: PERICLES (https://www.pericles-heritage.eu/).
- d) As Director of the Laboratory: «Visual Anthropology: Image, Music, Text» the research team are working on projects relating to social memory (oral history) and cultural heritage. Methodologically his work concentrates on discourse analysis in a Historical Anthropological perspective.
Teaching Appointment
2022: Associate Professor in Social Anthropology. Since 2002, he teaches Social Anthropology at the University of Crete. His course topics include: Introduction to Social Anthropology, Contemporary Anthropological Theory, Greek Ethnography, Photography and Society, Methodology of Ethnographic Research.
Selected Publications
- A) Books
Dimitra Mylona, Manos Koutrakis, Chrysa Goumpili, Aris Tsantiropoulos, Arguris Sapounidis (eds.): What means for you Maritime Cultural Heritage? ELGO Publications, collaboration with University of Crete, December 2021. The edited volume is available online: https://www.pericles-heritage.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/what-is-fishing-cultural-heritage-to-you-total.pdf
Scientific Routes in Social Sciences. Theoretical – Methodological Contributions and Case Studies. Ιntroduction: Zaimakis G., Editing of the part: «Social Memory in Modern Greece», pp. 465-496, University of Crete, Laboratory of Social Analysis and Applied Social Research, 2018 (in Greek).
The Blood-feud in Contemporary Mountainous Crete, Plethron Editions, Athens 2004 (in Greek).
- B) Publications in scientific journals/books (a selection)
Tsantiropoulos A., Chereji Ch., «Mediation in a Feuding Society. An Anthropological Approach of the Process of Sasmos in Contemporary Crete», (under publication)
Marianna Kalaitzidaki, Katerina Mantadaki, Aris Tsantiropoulos, “Picturing the Urban Environment: Using Photovoice to bring University Students’ View and Voices into Urban Environmental Education”, στο: Korfatis Κ., Grace M. (ed), Current Research in Biology Education. Selected Papers from the ERIDOB Community, Springer 2022, pp. 301-313.
«Narrations on maritime cultural heritage» in: What means for you Maritime Cultural Heritage? Ib., pp. 85-92 (in Greek).
Aris Tsantiropoulos, Dimitra Mylona, «Memories and the fishermen identity in contemporary Kabala», in: What means for you Maritime Cultural Heritage? Ib., pp. 93-100 (in Greek).
Aris Tsantiropoulos, Andromahi Oikonomou, «Work practices, environmental factors and vulnerability in the fishermen of N. Aegean. The case of Vistonida lagoon and Porto Lagos sea» 2021, in: M. Spyridakis, V. Kravva, Precarious Trajectories. Ethnographic Perspectives, Gutenberg Publications, pp. 443-468 (in Greek).
«Interpersonal differences and conflicts between men in front of the Law. An anthropological approach of sasmos (compromise) in contemporary Crete», in: Vasileiadou D., Giannitsiotis G., Dialeti A., Plakotos G. (eds.), Masculinities in history. Gender relations, practices, conceptualizations, Gutenberg Publications, Athens, 2019, pp. 169-196 (in Greek).
«The Greek Ethnography. A critical overview», Etnoantropologia. vol.2 (no2), 2014, pp. 1-10 (in English).
«Discourses on crime and culpability in the community, in the newspapers and in the courts: The case of the feuding society of Crete (Greece)», in: J. Rowbotham, M. Muravyeva, D. Nash, (eds.), Shame, Blame and Culpability. Crime, Violence and the Modern State, London and New York: Routledge Editions 2013, pp 199-214 (in English).
Tsantriopoloulos A., Koussouri M., «Le pouvoir du crime», στο: P.-L. Asssoun, M. Zafiropoulos (eds), Des figures cliniques du pouvoir, Anthropos Editions, Paris 2009, σελ. 45-56.
«Collective memory and blood feud. The case of mountainous Crete». Crimes and Misdemeanours; Deviance and the law in historical perspective, vol. 2 (1), 2008, σελ. 60-80.
«Social and economic transformation in central mountainous Crete. The village Zoniana as a case for a preliminary approach» Ariadni, vol. 13(2007), pp.169-191 (in Greek).
«Kinship Relations in the contemporary Context. The case of mountainous Crete» Ethnologia vol. 12 (2006), pp. 5-48 (in Greek).
«Tradition” and “modern” in the villages of the area of Mylopotamos. Aspects of an anomic situation». Publication in the Proceedings of Conference: The area of Mylopotamos from antiquity until present time, vol. VII, pp. 175-178 (in Greek).
Aikaterini Kopaka, Aggeliki Kosyva, Yorgos Nikolakakis, Aris Tsantiropoulos, «About the toponymy of the Islands of Gavdos and Gavdopoula», Publication in the Proceedings of Conference: The Cretan Τoponymy, Rethymno 2000 (in Greek).
«Economic and Social Transformation on Mountainous Crete. A Preliminary Perspective on the Zoniana Case», Ariadni, vol. 13 (2007), pp. 169-191 (in Greek).