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In defiance of destiny: the management of time and gender at a Cretan funeral
American ethnologist • 20 (2) • Published In 1993 • Pages: 241-255
By: Herzfeld, Michael.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this article, Herzfeld focuses on a village funeral in west-central Crete. He taped the widow's funerary lament and had the opportunity to discuss it with her a year later. Laments are a rare chance for women to speak publicly and express the pain of bereavement and their concern about being left alone and unprotected. Herzfeld sees laments as a preemptive strike to secure a woman's good name and maintain her status in the community. In this particular case, although a daughter lost her father, she later 'married off' her younger sister and herself, thus escaping a fate of spinsterhood and poverty.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Verbal arts
- Burial practices and funerals
- 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
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1974
- 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. 253-255)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74644326
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Greece