Kalymnian

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• One Kalymnian in his late twenties, a teenager when the accident occurred, became quite choked up while recounting the event.

  Academic text (1996)

• The Kalymnian fishermen know the sea like no one else; it is central to their way of life.

• Dynamite itself is closely connected to this Kalymnian orientation towards the sea.

  Academic text (1996)

• In fact, it is this very tension between Kalymnian attitudes toward independence and state control that makes dynamite such a central issue.

  Academic text (1996)

• In fact, this is undoubtedly the most significant event in the recent past in the memory of Kalymnians.

  Academic text (1996)

• For Kalymnians, custom is, by definition, not about the rational, and both sides in the debate agree on this.

  Academic text (1996)

• Although this practice cuts across most social divisions on the island, its significance and value are hotly debated by Kalymnians.

  Academic text (1996)

• Thus tradition is seen to be most properly in the domain of expressive culture, a mark of distinction that sets Kalymnians off from other people in museum-like fashion.

  Academic text (1996)

• I suggest that both explicit and implicit discourses are part of a process by which Kalymnians are attempting to define their identity and "distinctiveness" in relation to what they see as homogenizing forces of "modernity."

  Academic text (1996)

• The debate centered on how islanders interpreted and represented dynamite: as a well-worn Kalymnian custom with considerable historical significance, or as a "folly," a barbarous practice by a group of irrational fellow islanders.

  Academic text (1996)

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