A Place in History: Social and Monumental Time in a Cretan Town

Description

Describes what happens when a bureaucracy charged with historic conservation clashes with a local populace hostile to the state and suspicious of tourism. Focusing on the Cretan town of Rethemnos, once a center of learning under Venetian rule and later inhabited by the Turks, this book examines questions confronting conservators and citizens.

"Herezfeld once again assures his place as one of the finest ethnographers to work in Greece... This rare study of social organization in a provincial Greek city sheds much light on how public officials and citizens debate their connection to the Greek past."--Ethnohistory