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The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village
Michael Herzfeld
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Description for The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 492.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691102443
SKU
V9780691102443
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Reviews for The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village
"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
'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