Book
The poetics of manhood: contest and identity in a Cretan mountain village
Princeton University Press • Princeton, N.j. • Published In 1985 • Pages:
By: Herzfeld, Michael.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is Herzfeld's pièce de résistance and classic ethnography on Cretan highland culture. He makes the argument that androcentric ideology lies at the root of highland Crete's segmentary society and shows how in almost every instance male social encounters are expressions of mutual opposition, either amiable or hostile. He discusses how this androcentric ideology is expressed in such modes of action as hosting, elections, sheep stealing (and their narratives), feuds, reposts, and naming. For Herzfeld manhood is a performance acted out in front of a system of shared moral values and is an expression of agnatic solidarity and reciprocity, not rugged individualism.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Status, role, and prestige
- Gender status
- Lineages
- Community structure
- Political parties
- Elections
- 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
- 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
- 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 bibliographical references (p. 293-313)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 84026530
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Greece