essay
Under one roof: marriage, dowry, and family relations in Piearus
Urban life in Mediterranean Europe : anthropological perspectives • Urbana • Published In 1983 • Pages: 299-323
By: Hirschon, Renee.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this study, Hirschon examines a poverty-stricken urban refugee settlement in the port city of Pireaus and how it maintained its rural traditions over a 50-year period. The traditions include arranged marriages, dowry, and uxorilocal postmarital residence. Traditional values emphasize permanent marital bonds and family stability, which are based on separate living quarters within the bride's family home that are provided as part of the dowry. Hirschon discusses the extended family relationships in the house, including those between mother and daughter, husband and wife, sisters, and brother-in-laws. The relationships between sisters are often strained, however, those between brother-in-laws are in general friendly.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Dwellings
- Marriage
- Family
- Parents-in-law and children-in-law
- 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.
- 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
- 1969-1972
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1917-1972
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Yerania, Nea Ephesus, Pireaus, Greece
- NotesAdditional notes
- René Hirschon
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 322-323)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 82001900
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Greece