Books & Articles

Books

Sensing the Everyday

Dialogues from Austerity Greece
London/New York: Routledge, March 2019

The Last Word

Women, Death and Divination in Inner Mani
The University of Chicago Press (USA & Europe), 1991

The Senses Still

Perception and Memory as Material Culture in Modernity
The University of Chicago Press (USA & Europe), 1996 (paperback).
New hardcover edition also by Routledge, 2019

Identities in Pain

Co-edited with Jonas Frykman & S. Ewert
Sweden: Nordic Academic Press, 1998

Ritual, Power and the Body

Historical Perspectives on the Representation of Greek Women, ed.
New York: Pella Publishing Co. (Greek Studies), 1993

An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017 και Taylor & Francis 2026

Η Τελευταία Λέξη

The Last Word At Europe’s Edges – Di-Sensation, Death, Women
Athens: Pedio Publications, 2017. (First edition 1994, 4th edition 2008)

Repatriation of the Senses

Perception and Memory as Material Culture in the Contemporary Era Athens: Pedio Publications, 2017. (First edition 1997, 3rd edition 2008)

Crossing the Body

Culture, History and Gender in Greece
Athens: Pedio Publications, 2017. (First edition 1997, 2nd edition 2008)

Come Into Love (Poetry)

Athens: Pedio, 2018 (First edition 1999)

Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

Athens: Pedio Publications, 2017

Recognizing the Everyday

Dialogical Anthropology, Theory and Practice
Athens: Pedio Publications, 2018

Articles
I. IN BOOKS & JOURNALS

The Memory of the Senses: Marks of the Transitory
in The Senses Still, C. Nadia Seremetakis.
–Reprinted/Translated into Polish, Etnografia #4, 2018-19. Translators: K. Kuberska and K. Petrowiak.,
–Reprinted in The Design Culture Reader, Ben Highmore, ed. New York: Routledge, 2009.
–Reprinted (with the title The Breast of Aphrodite) in The Taste Culture Reader: Experiencing Food and Drink, Carolyn Korsmeyer, ed. Oxford: Berg, 2007, and Bloomsbury 2016.
–Reprinted in Senses and Sensation: Critical and Primary Sources, David Howes, ed. Bloomsbury 2018.

Finding Your Field
Passion and Purpose in the Humanities: Exploring the Worlds of Early Career Researchers
Marcus Bussey, CamilaMozzini-Alister, Bingxin Wang, Samantha Willcocks, eds. Routledge, 2025

Memory and Taste in Action: Translating Academic Knowledge to Public Knowledge.
The Routledge Handbook of Memory and Place. Sarah de Nardi, Steven High et al., eds. London/NY: Routledge, 2019.

Death Drives in the City: Or, on a Third Stream Anamnesis.
SOCIAL TEXT: Journal of Cultural and Political Analysis
(Duke University Press), vol.34 (1-126) March 2016.

On Tactility.
International Encyclopaedea of Anthropology. (Wiley Blackwell, 2018).

Performing Intercultural Translation.
Modern Greek Studies Yearbook– A Publication of Mediterranean, Slavic and Eastern Orthodox Studies (University of Minnesota), vol. 32-33, 2016-17.

Greek Pains: Subjectivity, Material Experience and Communication in Modernity.
Colonizing the Greek Mind? The Reception of Western Psychotherapeutics in Greece. Charles Stewart, ed.
Athens: Deree, The American College of Greece, 2014.

Divination, Media and the Networked Body of Modernity.
American Ethnologist, vol. 36, #2, May 2009.

Antiphony, Ritual and the Construction of Truth.
Proceedings of the conference Honouring the Dead in the Peloponnese. Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies, University of Nottingham, UK. Edited by Helen Cavanagh, William Cavanagh and James Roy. CSPS Online Publication prepared by Sam Farnham.

Tribute to Paul Stoller. In Greek.
The Anthropological View, C. Nadia Seremetakis, ed. Hellenic Sociological Review, #44, Spring 2008,

Athens: Papazissis Publishers.

Anthropological Dialogues: Stoller – Seremetakis.
In Greek. Hellenic Sociological Review, #44, Spring 2008,
Athens: Papazissis Publishers.

Female Discourse in Ancient and Modern Greece.
In Greek. XIII International Meeting on Ancient Drama: The Woman in Ancient Drama. European Cultural Center of Delphi, 2007.

Medicine, Media and Body Consumption in the Era of Globalization. In Greek.
Views on Contemporary Culture. Edited by Benaki Museum & Centre of Cultural Studies. Athens: Ellinika Grammata, 2006.

Presentation and translation of Allen Feldman’s Abu Ghraib: Ceremonies of Nostalgia. In Greek.
Hellenic Sociological Review, #41, Summer 2005, Athens: Papazissis Publishers

Toxic Beauties: Medicine, Media and Body Consumption in Transnational Europe, with commentary by Margaret Lock
“The Body in its Contemporary Version: Comments on Toxic Beauties by C. Nadia Seremetakis.” In Greek. Hellenic Sociological Review, #42, Winter 2005 – 6, Athens: Papazissis Publishers.

On the Branches of Memory.
Ode to the Olive Tree, ed. In Greek and English. Academy of Athens – Hellenic Folklore Research Center & General Secretariat for the Olympic Games, Hellenic Ministry of Culture, 2004.

On the Branches of Memory
In the volume “The Olive Tree and Olive Oil: From Antiquity to the Present Day” Academy of Athens, Centre for Research of Greek Folklore, 2003

Toxic Beauties: Medicine, Information and Body Consumption in Transnational Europe.
Social Text: Journal of Cultural and Political Analysis, 68, vol. 19, no. 3, Fall 2001.

The Memory of the Senses – Signs of the Ephemeral (reprinted) In the journal Revmata, issue 4, Aug.–Sept. 1999.
Also republished from the journal Eptakyklos, issue 14, Dec. ’99–Feb. 2000

Antiphony. Poem.
In the book The Man of Mt. Taenaron: Anthropological Quests in Inner Mani by Th. Pitsios. In Greek. Athens: Ellinika Ghrammata Press, 2000.

The Other City of Silence: Disaster and the Petrified Bodies of History. In German and English.
Re-Membering the Body. G. Brandstetter & H. Volckers, eds. Wiener Festwochen (Vienna Festival 2000). Hatje Cantz Publishers, May, 1999.

In Search of the Barbarians: Borders in Pain
Identities in Pain, J. Frykman, C. N. Seremetakis, S. Ewert. eds. Sweden: Nordic Academic Press, 1998.

Durations of Pains: A Genealogy of Pain
Identities in Pain, J. Frykman, C. N. Seremetakis, S. Ewert. eds. Sweden: Nordic Academic Press, 1998.

Memories of the Aftermath: Political Violence, Post-traumatic Stress and Cultural Transition to Democracy.
In Croatian & English. ZENE I POLITIKA MIRA. Centar za zenske stydije. Ζagreb, 1997.

In Search of the Barbarians: Borders in Pain
In the journal American Anthropologist, vol. 38, no. 3, 1996

Gender Studies or Women’s Studies: Theoretical and Pedagogical Issues, Research Agendas and Directions. <br Australian Feminist Studies (University of Adelaide), 1994.

The Memory of the Senses: Historical Perception, Commensal Exchange and Modernity, (reprinted).
Visualizing Theory: Selections from VAR 1990 – 1994, Lucien Taylor, ed. New York: Routledge, 1994

The Last Word in Greece and Beyond: Ethnography and Cultural Translation.
In Greek. The Last Word in the Ends of Europe, C. Nadia Seremetakis. Athens: Livani Publishing Org., 2008 (4th edition) [orig.1994].

Gender Studies or Women’s Studies: Theoretical and Pedagogical Issues, Research Agendas and Directions.
Australian Feminist Studies (University of Adelaide), 1994.

Book review: Contested Identities: Gender and Kinship in Modern Greece by Loizos and Papataxiarhis, eds.
American Ethnologist, Spring 1993.

The Memory of the Senses: Historical Perception, Commensal Exchange and Modernity.
Visual Anthropology Review, vol. 9, #2, 1993.

The Ethics of Antiphony: The Social Construction of Pain, Gender and Power in the Southern Peloponnese.
Ethos – Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology (American Anthropological Association), vol. 18, #4, 1990.

Introduction to Modern Greek Ideology and Folklore (Welcoming Remarks to folklorist Alki Kyriakidou-Nestoros).
Journal of Modern Hellenism, #3, 1986. Invited speech. Annual C. Paparrigopoulos Lecture, Center for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Queens College, N.Y.

Book review: The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village by Michael Herzfeld.
American Anthropologist, 88 (4), 1986.

The Eye of the Other: Watching Death in Rural Greece.
Journal of Modern Hellenism, vol. 1, 1984.

Structuralism, Universalism and Peasant Particularities.
In Greek.Social Sciences Review, #51, 1983. Greek National Center for Social Research. Athens.

Articles
II. IN NEWSPAPERS AND JOURNALS

New Words New Logos:
The Anthropological Concept of Translation. In Greek.
Daily national newspaper Kathimerini (Sunday edition) March 25-26, 2023. https://www.kathimerini.gr/culture/562338652/thlimmenoi-ochi-thliveroi-tropikoi/

New Norms of the Body: Women’s Hawkish Nails and the Taboo of Touch.
In Greek. Daily Athens Voice, Dec.18, 2023
https://www.athensvoice.gr/life/834410/nees-normes-somatos-ta-gunaikeia-gerakisia-nuhia-to-tabou-tis-afis/

On the Syndrome of the Forgotten Baby: The Anthropological View.
In Greek. Daily Athens Voice, June 7, 2023
https://www.athensvoice.gr/life/804118/paideia-kai-to-sundromo-tou-xehasmenou-morou-h-anthropologiki-apopsi/

Educational Reforms and Everyday Academic Culture.
In Greek. Daily national newspaper Kathimerini, Jan.29, 2022.
Reprinted in Neos Kosmos newspaper, Australia, Feb.8, 2022
https://www.kathimerini.gr/society/561693868/metarrythmisi-kai-kathimerini-akadimaiki-koyltoyra/?fbclid=IwAR0xZ-du-b9gO8PSWVCUk0Ok9jY9XuDtHXHxwxNzNP5MWf4f5JVZQOEHDf

A Mourning Ritual with Ancient Roots:The Maniat Laments.
Editor’s Pick. Kathimerini daily national newspaper, Sept.24, 2021
https://www.greece-is.com/mani-the-precious-one/

Speaking of Violence: Media in Academia.
Media Notes, Anthropology News, American Anthropological Association, online publication, September-Oct. 2011.

Carnival Changes.
In Greek. Ta NEA, National daily newspaper, special weekend edition, February 17, 2001.

Dreaming and Ethnography in the Mani.
In Greek. Archaeologia & Technae, #80, Athens, September 2001.

Greek Internet: Information, Interests or Knowledge?
In Greek. ΤΑ ΝΕΑ, National daily newspaper, special weekend edition, Nov. 18 – 19, 2000.

The Philosophy of Performance.
Book Review article: Aeshylus: Mythical Theater, Political Voice, John Chiolis. In Greek. Τa ΝΕΑ, National daily newspaper, special weekend edition, April 30, 2000.

Women in Public Life or in History?
In Greek. Τa ΝΕΑ National daily newspaper, special weekend edition, Sept. 9 – 10, 2000.

National Elections and the Peach of History.
In Greek. Τa ΝΕΑ, National daily newspaper, special weekend edition, April 22 – 23, 2000.

The Petrified Bodies of Vienna: Culture and European Politics.
In Greek. Τa ΝΕΑ National daily newspaper, special weekend edition, March 11 – 12, 2000.

Our Grandma Valentina.
In Greek. Τa ΝΕΑ National daily newspaper, special weekend edition, Feb. 19 – 20, 2000.

The Memory of the Senses – Signs of the Ephemeral (republication).
In the journal Revmata, issue 4, Aug.–Sept. 1999. Also republished from the journal Eptakyklos, issue 14, Dec. ’99–Feb. 2000

Maniat Lament, Female Discourse. Three-page article.
In Greek. Τa ΝΕΑ, National daily newspaper, special weekend edition, July 8 – 9, 2000.

Culture, Paedeia and Development in Messinia. In Greek.
Special edition “Archaeology and Museums”, Eptakyklos: Journal of Archaeological and Philological Studies, #2, Sept. 1998 – Jan. 1999, Athens.

Intellectual Rights and Diaspora Greeks (reprinted).
In Greek. Nea Politiki, monthly journal of political analysis, #7, April 2006, Athens.

Fieldwork as Performance
Acts of the A’ International Congress, Dromena: Modern Means and Techniques of Recording Them. Center of Dromena, National Cultural Network of Cities, Municipality of Komotini (Nothern Greece). In Greek. Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Oct. 1997.

Mass Media and Academic Violence or About Rumor: The Anthropological Interpretation.
In Greek. Dhiavazo journal, #339, July 1994.

Perception and Material Culture in Modernity.
In Greek. Αnthropotheoria, # 5 – 6, 1993, Patras.

Book Review, of The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project
by Susan Buck Morss. Society for the Anthropology of Europe Bulletin, American Anthropological Association, vol. 6, #1, 1992.

Women and Men of Antiquity and Us.
In Greek. To VIMA, Greek National newspaper (weekend edition), December 16, 1990.

Greek and Greek – American Women in Voice and Text.
Society for the Anthropology of Europe Bulletin, American Anthropological Association, vol. 3, #2, 1989.
Invited multimedia conference, The Onassis Center for Hellenic Studies at New York University, April 1989.
Conference chair and organizer: C. Nadia Seremetakis.

Women and Death: Cultural Power and Ritual Process in Inner Mani.
Canadian Woman Studies, a York University Publication, vol. 8, #2, 1987.

Articles
III. IN LOCAL NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES

The Other Languages of a Book
Eleftheria daily newspaper of Messinia, May 7, 2026
https://eleftheriaonline.gr/stiles/apopseis/item/353924-posa-leei-kai-den-leei-ena-vivlio-ston-topo-tou

Belgium and Paedea: A Recent Experience
THARROS daily newsparer of Messinia, Dec. 16, 2023
https://www.tharrosnews.gr/2023/12/velgio-kai-paideia-mia-prosfati-ebeiria/?fbclid=IwAR0u6uMiWcSIPlXPMgcnsISBqURcStjmQnebkqkZ40eyDVwa7DUjoA6taQE

Mani’s Contribution to the Modern World: Mourning Songs or More than that?
LACONIKOS TYPOS daily newspaper of Laconia, October 9, 2024
https://lakonikos.gr/arthra/item/177157-i-symvoli-tis-manis-ston-sygxrono-kosmo-moiroloi-i-kati-parapano

Πανεπιστήμιο και Κοινωνία
Στην εφημερίδα Ελευθερία, 7 Δεκεμβρίου 2011. [ΣΕΛΙΔΑ 12 ]
http://www.eleftheriaonline.gr/pdf/7%2012%202011.pdf 

What College Students Should Know
ELEFTHERIA daily newspaper of Messinia, Oct.3-4, 2015 Sunday edition:
[see on page 10 http://www.eleftheriaonline.gr/local/koinonia/perivallon-paideia-syllogoi/item/78460-ti-prepei-na-gnorizei-o-foititis-tou-panepistimiou-entos-ki-ektos-elladas ]

University and Local Administration: On Students’ Reception.
ELEFTHERIA daily newspaper of Messinia, Nov.13, 2015:
[see on page 10 http://www.eleftheriaonline.gr/stiles/apopseis/item/81848-perifereia-kai-panepistimio-peri-ypodoxis-ton-foititon ]

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