The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village / Michael Herzfeld
1988, Limited Paperback Edition. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press. Fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #354981
ISBN: 0691102449
Physical description: 336 pages: illustrations. Contents: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- PREFACE -- NOTES ON TRANSLITERATION AND KINSHIP ABBREVIATIONS -- CHAPTER ONE. The Poetics of Manhood -- CHAPTER TWO. Lines of Contest -- CHAPTER THREE. The Uses of Ideology -- CHAPTER FOUR. Idioms of Contest -- CHAPTER FIVE. Stealing to Befriend -- CHAPTER SIX. Reciprocity and Closure -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Sin and the Self -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Transformations -- APPENDIX. Specimen Greek Texts -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX. Subjects: Social interaction.
Rural conditions. Social interaction Greece Crete.
Ethnology Greece Crete.
Identity (Psychology) Greece Crete.
Price: €30.00