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Women's roles and house form and decoration in Eressos, Greece
Gender & power in rural Greece • Princeton, N.j. • Published In 1986 • Pages: 68-96
By: Pavlides, Eleftherios, Hesser, Jana.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this paper Pavlides and Hesser examine the extent to which women's roles in the traditional Greek village of Eressos influence the construction, design, and decor of the houses in which they live, and how recent economic changes in the society have altered the relationship of women to their houses (p. 69).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Dwellings
- Furniture
- Building interiors and arrangement
- Gender status
- 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 TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Indigenous Person
- 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
- October 1977-August 1978
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1850s-1970s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- village of Eressos, Island of Lesbos, Greece
- NotesAdditional notes
- Eleftherios Pavlides and Jana Hesser
- For bibliographical references see source 31: [Dubisch]
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 86003183
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Greece