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Gender pragmatics: agency, speech, and bride-theft in a Cretan mountain village
Anthropology • 9 (1) • Published In 1985 • Pages: 25-44
By: Herzfeld, Michael.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this article, Herzfeld examines the grammar of gender in narratives of bride-abduction in highland Crete. Bride abduction occurs in situations when the male suitor's original request for marriage is rebuffed. The successful abduction shows off the suitors cunning and forces the hand of the bride-to-be's father. In the narratives, the suitor does not express romantic love (EROTEVOME) as the reason for his action, but the love (AGHAPI), or mutual affection expressed between affines. Herzfeld argues that bride abduction has the same objective as an animal-theft in securing an alliance and friendship between agnatic groups through an initial hostile act that commands respect.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gender status
- Mode of marriage
- Arranging a marriage
- Sex and marital offenses
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary 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
- not specified
- 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. 44)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 78645681
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Greece