The book of our excellent compatriot doctor ethnologist-folklorist and poet Mr. Alekou Floraki with the title “Once upon a time in Tinos.
“Palipsista folklore”, in English translation by Michele E. Graham-Kallikakis, entitled “Sometime on Tinos. An Ethnographic Palimpsest”. I thank dear Michelle from the bottom of my heart for the excellent translation, which with a lot of attention, knowledge and love she brought to a -truly- happy end” says Mr. Florakis in his post.
The post by Michele E. Graham – Kallikakis
I wish to thank our good friend Alekos Florakis for entrusting me with the translation of his book, “Sometime on Tinos”. It was both a pleasure and an honor for me to translate this ethnographic account.
I hope that other English speakers will be interested to read about the customs and traditions that evolved throughout the years, thus promoting an appreciation and respect for the island’s cultural history.
(…) “Thirty-one years later, and since the book has long since been sold out, some of the elements that made it up appear here again, thanks to the publisher Stratis Filippotis. It is not the same interpretative remarks and reductions that inspire. The structure is also different, which aims not only at listing the information, as it was then, but also at commenting on it. However, I tried to maintain, as much as possible, that immediacy. I enriched the material with evidence from the progress of the research, but kept the discourse lively, often narrative. I also avoided the footnotes, quoting indicative bibliography at the end. (…) Palimpsed – rewritten – documents of an era and a personal wandering. Once when I was learning to talk to people and listen to things. Once in Tinos… Me”.
(FROM THE AUTHOR’S FOREWORD)
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