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Houses, fields and graves: property and ritual obligation on a Greek Island
Ethnology • 15 (1) • Published In 1976 • Pages: 21-34
By: Kenna, Margaret E..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper, which deals with the Cycladic Island of Nisos, describes the manner in which the pattern of naming, the system of inheritance, and beliefs about the fate of the soul after death, relate to the values placed on the independence and self-sufficiency of the family and on the moral obligations of parents, children and ritual kinsmen (KOUMBARI). Comparisons of these data are made to the Sarakatsani shepherds and the villagers of Vasilika.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cultural participation
- Real property
- Inheritance
- Labor supply and employment
- Naming
- Mode of marriage
- Mourning
- Cult of the dead
- 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
- article
- 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
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1966-1967
- 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. 34)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 64005713
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Greece