Sixteen months on a small Greek island? Not the holiday of a lifetime, but the start of anthropologist Margaret E.
Kenna's involvement with the residents of Anafi and its migrant community in Athens.
Greek Island Life gives a vivid and engaging account of research on Anafi in the 1960s, and is based on letters, progress reports, field-notes and diary entries made at the time.
Since then the author has returned to the island many times and her later impressions and knowledge are integ.