| Description |
1 online resource (163 pages) |
| Contents |
Preface -- Chapter One. Love in a Changing Greek Climate -- Chapter Two. The Reformation of Class -- Chapter Three. Anti-clericism and National Identity: Attitudes towards the Orthodox Church in Greece -- Chapter Four. Triumph of the Ethnos -- Chapter Five. The Limits of Kinship -- Chapter Six. Cultural Certainties and Private Doubts -- Chapter Seven. On the Ontological Status of Honour -- Chapter Eight. Marital Failures: Glimpsing the Margins of Marriage in Greece -- Works Cited -- Index |
| Summary |
This book comprises eight essays concerned with the ethnography of Greece, and in particular of the village of Spartokhori on the small Ionian island of Meganisi, Lefkadha, where, between 1977 and 1980, the author conducted anthropological fieldwork. For the most part, the essays focus on aspects of family, kinship and gender as they were to be found in what was, in the 1970s, a remote, rural community. Greek society has, of course, undergone profound changes over the last forty years, and these essays thus serve to document a way of life that has now virtually disappeared. Importantly, however, they also deal with the transformation of rural Greek society as it was occurring at the time. The book will appeal to social anthropologists, sociologists and historians of Modern Greece, and to anyone interested in rural Mediterranean society--back cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-159) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Ethnology -- Greece -- Meganísi
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Ethnology
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Greece -- Meganísi
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781527526556 |
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1527526550 |
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