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Embarrassment as pride: narrative resourcefulness and strategies of normativity among Cretan animal-thieves
Anthropological linguistics • 30 (3-4) • Published In 1988 • Pages: 319-344
By: Herzfeld, Michael.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a careful analysis of two animal raiding narratives by Cretan highland pastoralists, focusing on the excuses made by the narrators for their actions. In the first story the narrator excuses himself for participating in a raid at too-old an age, by emphasizing the fact that he was responding to, and therefore respecting, an unusual request by his son to accompany him. In the second story the narrator makes an excuse for collaborating with the authorities in nabbing a thief, by revealing how the theft violated the normal protocols of stealing. The stories are expressions of self-regard (EGOISMOS) and are meant to show off the narrators' acute understanding of social structure and strategies.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Verbal arts
- Ethics
- Property offenses
- 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
- Ian Skoggard ; 2002
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1974-1984
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1974-1984
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- 'Glendi,' Crete, Greece
- NotesAdditional notes
- Michael Herzfeld
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 342-343)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 71004564
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Greece