The Poetics of Manhood - Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village (Paperback, Reprint)

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

General

Imprint:	Princeton University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 1988
First published:	November 1988
Authors:	Michael Herzfeld
Dimensions:	235 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	336
Edition:	Reprint
ISBN-13:	978-0-691-10244-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Men's studies Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Equal opportunities
LSN:	0-691-10244-9
Barcode:	9780691102443

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