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Changing places and altered perspectivesessay 1992 • Kenna, Margaret E.
Greeks • Europe > Southeastern Europe
This is a study of Kenna's relationship to the people of the island of Nisos during three periods of the author's fieldwork in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. The paper describes the islander's changing perception of her from the first period of fieldwo...Family and economic life in a Greek Island communityessay 1990 • Kenna, Margaret E.
Greeks • Europe > Southeastern Europe
This paper presents an account of the family-based economy of the Greek island of Nisos, based on the author's fieldwork on the island from 1966-1967, and again from 1987-1988. During the earlier period of her fieldwork Kenna dealt mainly with the re...Greek urban migrants and their rural patron saintarticle 1977 • Kenna, Margaret E.
Greeks • Europe > Southeastern Europe
The primary theme of this study is rural-urban migrant relations. Kenna notes that one of the problems faced by rural migrants in an urban setting is that of creating an identity or set of identities which are strategically crucial in various urban a...Houses, fields and gravesarticle 1976 • Kenna, Margaret E.
Greeks • Europe > Southeastern Europe
This paper, which deals with the Cycladic Island of Nisos, describes the manner in which the pattern of naming, the system of inheritance, and beliefs about the fate of the soul after death, relate to the values placed on the independence and self-su...Icons in theory and practicearticle 1985 • Kenna, Margaret E.
Greeks • Europe > Southeastern Europe
This essay describes the icon, a type of religious picture associated with the Orthodox Christian faith, which are made according to traditional formulae that are believed to enable the icon to transmit divine grace to human devotees (p. 345). The au...The idiom of familyessay 1976 • Kenna, Margaret E.
Greeks • Europe > Southeastern Europe
Kenna attempts to show in this paper how '…the idiom of family, used in relationships of wedding sponsorship and godparent -hood (KOUMBARIA), reconciles the ideal of family independence and self-sufficiency with the need of co-operative ties outside ...Institutional and transformational migration and the politics of communityarticle 1983 • Kenna, Margaret E.
Greeks • Europe > Southeastern Europe
The major theme of this paper is the migration from the small Cycladic island of Nisos (a pseudonym) to Athens by a largely male population seeking employment in the building trades. The first part of this article describes the depopulating of Nisos ...Mattresses and migrantsessay 1992 • Kenna, Margaret E.
Greeks • Europe > Southeastern Europe
During the past two decades, the involvement of returning migrants in the patron saint's festival on the small Greek island of Nisos (a pseudonym), appears to have 'revitalized' the celebration and, to some extent, changed its nature. These changes s...The power of the deadarticle 1991 • Kenna, Margaret E.
Greeks • Europe > Southeastern Europe
Kenna describes changes in ritual practices associated with death and mourning over a period of three decades in a Greek Orthodox Christian community on the island of Nisos (a pseudonym) and discusses these changes '… in the light of a particular pat...Return migrants and tourist developmentarticle 1993 • Kenna, Margaret E.
Greeks • Europe > Southeastern Europe
This document presents a detailed anthropological case study of the Island of Anafi, one of the Cycladic island group, showing that '…a strict dicotomy between locals and outsiders in the study of tourism development is too simplistic. The role of re...Saying 'no' in Greeceessay 1995 • Kenna, Margaret E.
Greeks • Europe > Southeastern Europe
This paper is concerned with the nature of hospitality in Grece as a formal mechanism for the articulation of cultural values rather than as the expression of an entirely personal relationship. In a culture were it is considered polite for a guest to...Where the streets have no namearticle 1995 • Kenna, Margaret E.
Greeks • Europe > Southeastern Europe
In this paper Kenna describes the disappearance of a distinctively local style of building construction, the barrel-vault, on the Island of Anafi, and links '…it to a set of well-known occurrences: migration, capital accumulation, improved communicat...