essay
Family and economic life in a Greek Island community
Family, economy and community • Cardiff • Published In 1990 • Pages: 143-163
By: Kenna, Margaret E..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper presents an account of the family-based economy of the Greek island of Nisos, based on the author's fieldwork on the island from 1966-1967, and again from 1987-1988. During the earlier period of her fieldwork Kenna dealt mainly with the relationship between the pattern of naming children, the division of the parental estate between sons and daughters, and the obligations of the heirs to carry out a set of rituals for the souls of those from whom they received property. The later fieldwork period '…focused on the changing relationship between island residents and migrants from the island settled in the suburbs of Athens, to which islanders had been migrating seasonally and permantently for over 140 years. Despite major differences in the orientations of these two pieces of research, the themes of family obligation, property and making a living, ran through both and facilitate an instructive comparison between the meagre subsistence-base economy of the sixties and the fledgling cash-base economy of the eighties. The comparison emphasizes some features in contrast … but also stresses the continuity of other practices' (p. 143).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Internal migration
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Pastoral activities
- Tillage
- Urban and rural life
- Real property
- Production and supply
- Labor and leisure
- Labor supply and employment
- Household
- 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
- 1966-1967, 1987-1988
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1966-1967, 1987-1988
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Island of Nisos (a pseudonym), Greece
- NotesAdditional notes
- Margaret E. Kenna
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 163)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 91187713
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Greece