Book
A place in history: social and monumental time in a Cretan town
Princeton University Press • Princeton, N.j. • Published In 1991 • Pages: xvi, 305
By: Herzfeld, Michael.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Herzfeld examines inter-linked issues of housing, tourism, history, local-state relations, and identity in the Cretan port town of Rethemnos. How is identity negotiated in a town that has been at a cross currents of history (Venetian and Turkish) and since the 1960s experiencing a housing boom, one closely controlled by the state in the effort to preserve a national heritage? Herzfeld examines how morality and identity are entwined in the struggle between state historic conservation office, city planning board, and local families trying to make a living. Some of the specific issues he looks at are gambling, tax evasion, and informing.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Architecture
- Dwellings
- Settlement patterns
- Housing
- Deliberative councils
- Administrative agencies
- Taxation and public income
- Government regulation
- 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
- 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
- 1970-1984
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1940-1989
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Rethemnos, Crete, Greece
- NotesAdditional notes
- Michael Herzfeld
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-285)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 90028755
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Greece