Book
Heirs of the Greek catastrophe: the social life of Asia Minor refugees in Piraeus
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press • Oxford • Published In 1989 • Pages:
By: Hirschon, Renee.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Hirschon has written an account of the history and culture of a longstanding urban refugee community near Piraeus, Greece. The government hurriedly built prefabricated housing for thousands of Asia Minor Greek refugees, who came to Greece after the 1923 treaty with Turkey. Hirschon relates how the common refugee experience of hardship and powerlessness, and memories of unique status in the Ottoman Empire and Byzantium legacy forged among the immigrants a common identity and subculture. Both men and women worked hard to preserve family honor, partly expressed in a clean and tidy home. This together with the need to provide a separate living accommodation in the bride's family home as part of the dowry helped to maintain housing long past its intended lifespan. Hirschon also discusses the use of domestic space and neighborhood and religious life.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Dwellings
- Housing
- Mode of marriage
- Household
- Extended families
- Community structure
- Life and death
- 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
- 1969-1983
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1927-1983
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Yerania, Kokkinia, Piraeus, Greece
- NotesAdditional notes
- René Hirschon
- Based on thesis (Ph.D.)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-271) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 88016848
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Greece