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The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Poetics of Manhood"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...
Full description- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Published: 01 November 1988
- Format: Paperback 336 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Social Discrimination | Gender Studies: Men | Anthropology
- ISBN 13: 9780691102443 ISBN 10: 0691102449
- Sales rank: 453,918
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Full description for The Poetics of Manhood
"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
