Book
Ours once more: folklore, ideology, and the making of modern Greece
Pella Publishing Co. • New York • Published In 1986 • Pages:
By: Herzfeld, Michael.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this book, Herzfeld examines the role of folklorists in the building of the modern Greek nation state. He argues that folklore studies contributed significantly to the Hellenist movement in the period between Greek Independence (1821) and Greece's conclusive defeat by Turkey, short of reclaiming Constantinople, the jewel of their former Byzantine Empire, in 1924. Herzfeld examines the contradictions between Greece's pagan Hellenism and eastern Orthodox Christianity, and Byzantine and European identities. Songs of bandit-rebel bands (KLEFTS) were an important source material for folklorists who linked the songs to ancient Greek myths and ballades in an effort to identify with western Europe, while at the same time using Western powers to help them reclaim a past Byzantium glory.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cultural revitalization and ethnogenesis
- Verbal arts
- Revolution
- Humanistic studies
- 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
- Book
- 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
- 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
- not specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1453-1922
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Greece
- NotesAdditional notes
- Michael Herzfeld
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-197)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 86062459
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Greece