essay
Silence, submission, and subversion: toward a poetics of womanhood
Contested identities : gender and kinship in modern Greece • Princeton, N.j. • Published In 1991 • Pages: 70-97
By: Herzfeld, Michael.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The ethnographic literature on Greece has depicted women as submissively silent or dangerously garrulous. In the public sphere women submit to male control of material resources, decisions as to the future of the family's children, and the family's public image. In this essay Herzfeld describes several ways in which women can register their resentment of male control and pretension through such means, for example, as intentional silence, and complex linguistic symbolism (e.g., verbal irony in conversation).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Speech
- Sociolinguistics
- Leisure time activities
- Gender status
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Regulation of marriage
- Mourning
- Gender roles and issues
- 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
- essay
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2002
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- 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
- For bibliographical references see source 83: [Loizos and Papataxiarchis]
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 90047780
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Greece