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The Poetics of Manhood : Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village /

Herzfeld, Michael

The Poetics of Manhood : Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village / Michael Herzfeld. - 1 online resource (336 p.)

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- PREFACE -- NOTES ON TRANSLITERATION AND KINSHIP ABBREVIATIONS -- CHAPTER ONE. The Poetics of Manhood -- CHAPTER TWO. Lines of Contest -- CHAPTER THREE. The Uses of Ideology -- CHAPTER FOUR. Idioms of Contest -- CHAPTER FIVE. Stealing to Befriend -- CHAPTER SIX. Reciprocity and Closure -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Sin and the Self -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Transformations -- APPENDIX. Specimen Greek Texts -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX

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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9780691216386

10.1515/9780691216386 doi


Ethnology--Greece--Crete.
Folklore--Greece.
Identity (Psychology)--Greece--Crete.
Men--Greece--Crete.
Social interaction--Greece--Crete.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.

Christ. Constantine II, King. Gastarbeiter. God. Greece, Byzantine. Herzfeld, Michael. Iraklio. Karamanlis, Constantine. New Liberals (political party). Papandreou, Andreas. affines. agriculture. arotikhtadhes. banditry. bride theft. bureaucracy. card games. coffeehouses. death. drinking. eghoismos. elections. experience, social. feuds. filotimo. firearms. hospitality. humor. ideology. improvisation. kinship. kollisaridhes. law courts. male identity. meaning. mediation. performance. police. priests. responsibility. rhetoric.

HQ1090.7.G8 / H46 1985

305.3/1/094998