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Introducing the NIKOKYRA: ideality and reality in social process
Gender & power in rural Greece • Princeton, N.j. • Published In 1986 • Pages: 97-120
By: Salamone, Stephen D., Stanton, J. B..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this paper Salamone and Stanton discuss the formalization of women's power and prestige in rural Greek society through the institution of the NIKOKYRIO, translated as 'household economy' in the text. The NIKOKYRIO, which forms the organizational focus of the nuclear family, is a corporate, self-sufficient, family-based enterprise from which both men and women derive public prestige and social equality. The authors describe in detail the functioning of NIKOKYRIO on the island of Amouliani and the manner in which this traditional concept has adapted to modernization and industrialization.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sociocultural trends
- Functional and adaptational interpretations
- Norms
- Gender status
- Mode of marriage
- Household
- Ethnosociology
- 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
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Amouliani Island, Halkidiki, Greece
- NotesAdditional notes
- S. D. Salamone and J. B. Stanton
- For bibliographical references see source 31: [Dubisch]
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 86003183
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Greece