essay
The limits of kinship
Contested identities : gender and kinship in modern Greece • Princeton, N.j. • Published In 1991 • Pages: 114-132
By: Just, Roger.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document addresses the role of kinship and family in the relatively isolated village community of Spartohori, located on the Island of Meganisi in Greece. The author notes that it was impossible to understand anything about the village without first understanding something about kinship. The values of kinship seemed to permeate alsmost every aspect of village life - from where one shopped to whom one voted for, from the forms of local economic cooperation, such as wine making and fishing, to the adventure of overseas migration (p. 115). Each of these aspects of kinship relations are explored in depth in this work.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Fishing
- Alcoholic beverages
- Mutual aid
- Household
- Family relationships
- Extended families
- Kin relationships
- Cousins
- Kindreds and ramages
- Political parties
- Elections
- 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
- April 1977-May 1980
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1977-1980
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- village of Spartohori, Island of Meganisi, Greece
- NotesAdditional notes
- Roger Just
- For bibliographical references see source 83: [Loizos and Papataxiarchis]
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 90047780
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Greece