The poetics of manhood
Subtitle: contest and identity in a Cretan mountain village
By: Michael Herzfeld.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
Subjects: Men -- Greece -- Crete.; Social interaction -- Greece -- Crete.; Identity (Psychology) -- Greece -- Crete.; Ethnology -- Greece -- Crete.; Folklore -- Greece -- Crete.; Crete (Greece) -- Rural conditions.; Crete (Greece) -- Social life and customs.
Description: "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.--
Notes: Bibliography: p. [293]-299.
Includes index.