essay
Friends of the heart: male commensal solidarity, gender, and kinship in Agean Greece
Contested identities : gender and kinship in modern Greece • Princeton, N.j. • Published In 1991 • Pages: 156-179
By: Papataxiarchis, E. (Euthymios).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an analysis of the concept of friendship as it is perceived and practiced by men in the world of the coffee house, in the community of Mouria, northern Lesbos, Greece. Papataxiarchis demarcates friendship from economic and political exchange, and its independence from kinship, and then discusses its developmental cycle and its focus on the making and sharing of masculine identity. The author notes that friendship rests on a rich infrastructure of gendered emotions, which are thought to be exclusively held by men. The conclusion of this study explores the implication of the author's analysis for the understanding of friendship, in particular, and same-sex relatedness, in general (p. 158).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Drives and emotions
- Alcoholic beverages
- Drinking establishments
- Games
- Gambling
- Gender status
- Friendships
- Visiting and hospitality
- Exploitation
- Political intrigue
- Gender roles and issues
- 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
- Sept. 1979-May 1981
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1979-1981
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Community of Mouria, northern Lesbos, Greece
- NotesAdditional notes
- Evthymios Papataxiarchis
- For bibliographical references see source 83: [Loizos and Papataxiarchis]
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 90047780
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Greece