essay
Servants and sentries: women, power, and social reproduction in Kriovrisi
Gender & power in rural Greece • Princeton, N.j. • Published In 1986 • Pages: 53-67
By: Dimen, Muriel.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a theoretical work that examines the function that the household performs for the public world of work and power. Through an analysis of the concepts of private/public hegemony and social reproduction the author attempts to show how women in the village of Kriovrisi both resist and capitulate to certain forces from the public domain that threaten to fragment both the village and the households within it. These forces are the centifugal power of the economy and the centralizing power of the state which create alienation and anomie. As the result of trying to mitigate the effects of these forces on others, women themselves develop ambivalent feelings about their work, experience, and selfhood (p. 53).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Functional and adaptational interpretations
- Division of labor by gender
- Gender status
- Social relationships and groups
- Household
- Community structure
- Community councils
- Gender roles and issues
- 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
- essay
- 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 ; 2002
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1967-1968
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1967-1968
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- village of Kriovrisi, Province of Epiros, Prefecture of Ioannina, Greece
- NotesAdditional notes
- Muriel Dimen
- For bibliographical references see source 31: [Dubisch]
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 86003183
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Greece