Michael Herzfeld

Broschiertes Buch

The Poetics of Manhood

Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village

Beschreibung

The description for this book, The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village, will be forthcoming.

Autor

Michael Herzfeld

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 1988
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 570g
• ISBN-13: 9780691102443
• ISBN-10: 0691102449
• Artikelnr.: 22455820

Rezensionen

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.