The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

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

"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 SupplementRead More

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  • 0691102449
  • 9780691102443
  • Michael Herzfeld
  • 1 November 1988
  • Princeton University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 336
  • New edition
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