essay
Sisters in Christ: metaphors of kinship among Greek nuns
Contested identities : gender and kinship in modern Greece • Princeton, N.j. • Published In 1991 • Pages: 135-155
By: Iossifides, A. Marina.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this study Iossifides examines some of the norms defining kinship in a Greek village in southern Epirus, and compares these with the relationships observed in nearby convents that use similar metaphorical kinship terms. Though the terms may be the same (e.g., sisters), there is a shift of emphasis from the material world and life as an ever continuing 'natural cycle', to one which emphasizes the spiritual world. It is the distinction between the secular person of the world and the person of the spirit of the monastic order -- the nuns -- that forms the primary subject matter of this work.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Household
- Kin relationships
- Artificial kin relationships
- Theological systems
- Prophets and ascetics
- Ethnoanatomy
- Ethnophysiology
- Ethnosociology
- 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
- Jan. 1986-May 1987
- 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)
- southern Epirus, Greece
- NotesAdditional notes
- A. Marina Iossifides
- For bibliographical references see source 83: [Loizos and Papataxiarchis]
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 90047780
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Greece