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The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.31094998
EAN: 9780691102443
ISBN: 0691102449
Label: Princeton University Press
Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: November 01, 1988
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Studio: Princeton University Press
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Editorial Review:
"The Cretan mountain-dwellers are in particular famous for their sustained resistance to Turkish rule and then to German occupation. Their values, well-expressed in the motto of the Cretan writer Kazantzakis--`I hope for nothing; I fear nothing; I am free'--made them heroes at times when such qualities were positively endorsed in a Greece fighting to escape foreign domination. Today inevitably they are frowned on; Cretan shepherds are now caricatured as `goat thieves and knife pullers', a survival of primitivism outrageous in a modern state. Herzfeld's excellent and sensitive ethnography of the pseudonymous village and inhabitants of Glendi, a mountain village in central Crete, is concerned with just these attributes, the ways they are lived and reproduced among Glendiots."--Olivia Harris, Times Higher Education Supplement
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Rating: - An ethnographic study with oomph and panache
Ever since I became interested in Greece I have been reading books that I would not otherwise have bothered with and some of them have widened my horizons and deepened my understanding (of things in general) to an extent I would not have expected. This book by Herzfeld is one such work. Its rather peculiar title contains a number of words whose meaning has to be worked out early on. Poetics has nothing to do with poetry. It refers to the way people work out value and meaning in their everyday lives. ... Read More
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