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The following study is based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in 1989 in a Pomak1 village located in a mountainous area in the prefecture of Xanthi,2 northeastern Greece. My initial interests in undertaking research concerned the complex changes which appear in a local community when it is confronted with a highly monetarised economy. Yet this particular community is an ethnic group within the Muslim minority in Thrace; hence, my overall research was largely affected by cultural aspects of social change affecting the village, aspects involving a question of identity which is no longer religious, but national.
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Frangopoulos, Y. (1997). Religion, Identity and Political Conflict in a Pomak Village in Northern Greece. In: Vertovec, S., Peach, C. (eds) Islam in Europe. Migration, Minorities and Citizenship Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25697-6_4
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