History, Time, and Economic Crisis in Central Greece [electronic resource] /
Knight, Daniel.author.
History, Time, and Economic Crisis in Central Greece explores how the inhabitants of a Greek town face the devastating consequences of the worst economic crisis in living memory. Knight examines how the inhabitants draw on the past to contextualize their experiences and build strength that will enable them to overcome their suffering.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-203) and index.
Introduction: prosperity and crisis -- Ethnography on the plain of Thessaly -- Return of the Tsiflikades: crisis and land tenure 1881-1923 -- Hungry with the same famine -- Things to forget, things to remember: the Greek Civil War -- Public faces: food and protest in the current crisis -- Transforming the public sphere -- Status in crisis.
History, Time, and Economic Crisis in Central Greece explores how the inhabitants of a Greek town face the devastating consequences of the worst economic crisis in living memory. Knight examines how the inhabitants draw on the past to contextualize their experiences and build strength that will enable them to overcome their suffering.
Economic sociology.
Economic history.
Ethnography.
Ethnology.
Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.
Economic History.
Ethnography.
Cultural Anthropology.