Poetics of Manhood - Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village

Zusatztext "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 Informationen zum Autor Michael Herzfeld Klappentext The description for this book! The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village! will be forthcoming. Zusammenfassung The description for this book, The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village, will be forthcoming.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Herzfeld, Herzfeld Michael
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.11.1988
• EAN: 9780691102443
• ISBN: 978-0-691-10244-3
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Men's Studies, Social discrimination & inequality, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Gender studies: men and boys, Gender Studies: Men, Social discrimination and social justice