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

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Michael Herzfeld
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:336
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 152
ISBN/Barcode 9780691102443
ClassificationsDewey:305.31094959
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publication Date 21 November 1988
Publication Country United States

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