Lilies Of The Field: Marginal People Who Live For The Moment (Studies in the Ethnographic Imagination)
by Akis Papataxiarchis
Category: Social Science

The individuals examined here are prepared to try to do without arrangements for their own reproduction through time, rather than enmesh themselves in a politically coercive world, where they can only find a place as dependents. The authors consider the multiple political uses to which these cultural attitudes have been put, both by the people immediately concerned and also by (more powerful) others.