A Greek Anthropologist

Fieldwork journal by anthropologist Dr. Alexia Liakounakou. Research: women / beauty / crisis

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AI - tech - beauty dreams.

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Love in the time of corona. Beauty parlor in Athens.

Photo by Alexia Liakounakou.

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Kolonaki shop front.

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“Dont’ forget to live”. Graffiti in Pangrati, Athens

Covid-19 diaries, December 2020

Photo by Alexia Liakounakou

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Second nationwide lockdown

Began Saturday, 7 November, 2020

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“Better Days Will Come”. Pharmacy window in Athens, Greece

Photo by Alexia Liakounakou

A week before the second lockdown is imposed nationwide, on Saturday 7 November, 2020. 

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Statue wearing a face mask; a commentary on life in the Covid-19 era. 

Odeion Athinon, October 2020 

Photo by © Alexia Liakounakou

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A new, smaller ‘lockdown’ begins in Greece in an effort to contain the ‘second wave’ of Covid-19. This comes as a response to the rising cases in October 2020, which reached more than 2,000 new cases daily. 

Excerpt from the New York Times, Novermber 2, 2020. 

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Photo of the empty streets around Syntagma square and the Grande Bretagne Hotel during lockdown. 

Central Athens, 3 May, 2020

© Alexia Liakounakou

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Screenshot from the first virtual EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists) Conference set in Lisbon, with participants from around the globe. 

This was our panel, “Bettering oneself: enhancing bodies and subjectivities through biotechnologies of the self”. 

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My piece for the UCL Medical Anthropology blog, in tis dedicated section about the coronavirus and its social effects around the world:

https://medanthucl.com/2020/03/29/life-under-quarantine-and-now-surveillance-a-dispatch-from-greece/?fbclid=IwAR28FvJYLdZ7faxGAw7D0DsY2aZT3NnqdAAZllGZSh8NlUQmnOh7GSJDcpc

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This is my first piece during the Greek coronavirus breakdown. It is day 6 of quarantine.

Athens feels and sounds incredibly still. How can one study society without people? Technology is the only outlet: telephone, television, social media - our windows to the world. 

In Europe, around 250,000 people are currently isolating at home. All social activities are banned. For who knows how long. 

We are told the virus stays on surfaces for 1-3 days. I’ve heard that we need to clean everything that comes into the house, like cartons, plastic containers, and all sorts of small and wrapped-up items (which is practically impossible). 

Some cases are certainly not being recorded, as they are asymptomatic. But as of today, Greece has had 464 recorded cases and 6 deaths. Most deaths have occurred in Kastoria in northern Greece. 

© Alexia Liakounakou

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According to Cosmopolitan UK, this was “the face of 2019″. The magazine calls it “the sexy baby face”. However, I see a lot more in common between the woman in this picture and the face of Kim Kardashian, whose family has undeniably shaped the global non-surgical cosmetic medical landscape this past decade.

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“Weapon of the people,” 

Athens, Greece, 2018 

© Alexia Liakounakou

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What classical Greek and Roman sculptures really looked like. 

See more here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/29/the-myth-of-whiteness-in-classical-sculpture?fbclid=IwAR3b-W6DdgHRH40CkuZn2JMgs866St1uPJBRayc6b2hFd9MbpbpxG5PoRdg

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Martha Karagianni in Το Ανθρωπάκι by Finos Film 

1969

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Statue of Aphrodite, © Alexia Liakounakou

National Archaeological Museum

Athens, Greece