Narratives of Place

Abstract

The following chapters will concentrate on ethnographic manifestations of the group’s idiosyncratic liminality. I describe some examples ofMykoniotgatherings that will help to ethnographically draw the performative boundaries around theMykoniots d’élection.The material will show three aspects of theMykoniots’attitude towards liminality: firstly, theMykoniots’version of celebrating mainstream rituals (through a description of a wedding in chapter 5); secondly, their appropriation of and participation in local feasts; and, thirdly, the creation of a liminal ‘routine’ of their own, that I euphemistically call ‘a ritual of our own’ in imitation of theMykoniots’childlike and conspicuous attitude