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The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Michael Herzfeld
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:336 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 152 |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780691102443
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| Classifications | Dewey:305.31094959 |
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| Audience | | Professional & Vocational | | Tertiary Education (US: College) | |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Princeton University Press
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| Imprint |
Princeton University Press
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| Publication Date |
21 November 1988 |
| Publication Country |
United States
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Description
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Reviews"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
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