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Literacy as symbolic strategy in Greece: methodological consideration of topic and space
Byzantine and modern Greek studies • 14 • Published In 1990 • Pages: 151-172
By: Herzfeld, Michael.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article is largely a theoretical argument against the analytical separation of oral traditions and literary texts. The latter are often an appropriation of the former, for example in folklore studies, where the search for an original urtext serves centralized state power. According to Herzfeld, performances associated with oral traditions are meaningful acts in their own right, which incorporate both linguistic and non-linguistic modes of action. Perfomances are both context and text bound and speak to power, but their meaning can be fleeting, unobtainable outside the specific group or situation. He analyzes several distiches as illustrations.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Verbal arts
- 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
- 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 bibliographica references (p. 170-172)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 78641277
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Greece