essay
Cosmos and gender in village Greece
Contested identities : gender and kinship in modern Greece • Princeton, N.j. • Published In 1991 • Pages: 47-78
By: Du Boulay, Juliet.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study attempts to address a few of the cosmological issues involved in ideas of gender as held in the Greek village of Amboli at the time of the author's fieldwork. These issues are: 'how far Greek villagers conceive God and Christ in gender terms; whether they conceive the natural world (insofar as it is separable from God) in such terms; and what relation can be discerned between the divine and natural attributes revealed in the answer to the first two questions, and the construction of gender in social life' (p. 47). The final section of this work deals with death and particularly with mourning. The author suggests that mourning not only serves as a means of reconstructing the cosmic order and reaffirming its authority but also accomplishes this through images of gender which associate women, the flesh, and pollution in opposition to that order.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gender status
- Burial practices and funerals
- Mourning
- General character of religion
- Spirits and gods
- Theological systems
- Purification and atonement
- Ritual
- 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
- 1966-1968, 1970-1973, 1980
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1966-1980
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- village of Amboli, North Euboea, Greece
- NotesAdditional notes
- Juliet Du Boulay
- For bibliographical references see source 83: [Loizos and Papataxiarchis]
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 90047780
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Greece