The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village

Michael Herzfeld

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0691102449 ISBN 13: 9780691102443

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1988

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

Recensione:

"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

Product Description:

HERZFELD, M. THE POETICS OF MANHOOD. CONTEST AND IDENTITY IN A CRETAN MOUNTAIN VILLAGE. PRINCETON, NJ, 1988, xix 313 p.,figuras. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.