TY  - BOOK
AU  - Danforth,Loring M.
AU  - Tsiaras,Alexander
TI  - The Death Rituals of Rural Greece
SN  - 9780691218199
U1  - 393/.09495 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Death
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Greece
KW  - Funeral rites and ceremonies
KW  - Laments
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Alexiou, M
KW  - God
KW  - Haros
KW  - affines
KW  - binary oppositions
KW  - bitterness
KW  - black
KW  - burial
KW  - candles
KW  - clothes
KW  - confinement
KW  - corpse
KW  - decomposition
KW  - departure
KW  - earth
KW  - emergence
KW  - exhumation
KW  - family relationships
KW  - flowers
KW  - funeral service
KW  - graves
KW  - grief
KW  - harvest
KW  - immortality
KW  - incense
KW  - inheritance
KW  - kerchief
KW  - laments
KW  - lamps
KW  - liminality
KW  - marriage
KW  - memorial services
KW  - mother-in-law
KW  - naming system
KW  - obligations of living to dead
KW  - ommon-sense perspective
KW  - pain
KW  - paradise
KW  - religious perspective
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; PREFACE --; INTRODUCTION: THE SELF AND THE OTHER --; 1. DEATH IN POTAMIA --; 2. THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF DEATH --; 3. DEATH AS PASSAGE --; 4. METAPHORS OF MEDIATION IN GREEK FUNERAL LAMENTS --; 5. WOUNDS THAT NEVER HEAL --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX --; PHOTOGRAPHS; restricted access
N2  - This compelling text and dramatic photographic essay convey the emotional power of the death rituals of a small Greek village--the funeral, the singing of laments, the distribution of food, the daily visits to the graves, and especially the rite of exhumation. These rituals help Greek villagers face the universal paradox of mourning: how can the living sustain relationships with the dead and at the same time bring them to an end, in order to continue to live meaningfully as members of a community? That is the villagers' dilemma, and our own. Thirty-one moving photographs (reproduced in duotone to do justice to their great beauty) combine with vivid descriptions of the bereaved women of "Potamia" and with the words of the funeral laments to allow the reader an unusual emotional identification with the people of rural Greece as they struggle to integrate the experience of death into their daily lives. Loring M. Danforth's sensitive use of symbolic and structural analysis complements his discussion of the social context in which these rituals occur. He explores important themes in rural Greek life, such as the position of women, patterns of reciprocity and obligation, and the nature of social relations within the family
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691218199?locatt=mode:legacy
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