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The role of kinship in the transmission of national culture to rural villages in mainland Greece
American anthropologist • 61 • Published In 1959 • Pages: 30-38
By: Friedl, Ernestine.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this study, the author has attempted to show how the role of kinship in Greece acts as a mechanism for maintaining rural-urban connections, and how this mechanism continues to function despite any upward mobility changes on the part of the Greek peasant. This paper tries to point up the particular significance of kinship in the intricate network of group relations between rural and urban areas of Greece and to show the process by which, at least in the area of the village of Vasilika, where the author did her fieldwork, the 'elite' are quite often likely to be one's own relations. This source, which is based on the author's 1955-1956 fieldwork, is a revised version of a paper prepared for a symposium on European peasant cultures held at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association at Chicago in December 1957.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Urban and rural life
- Status, role, and prestige
- Social relationships and groups
- Visiting and hospitality
- Family relationships
- Kin relationships
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Greeks
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2003
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeastern Europe
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1965-1966
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1955-1956
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Vasilika, Greece
- NotesAdditional notes
- Ernestine Friedl
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 37-38)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17015424
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Greece