essay
Hunters and hunted: KAMAKI and the ambiguities of sexual predation in a Greek town
Contested identities : gender and kinship in modern Greece • Princeton, N.j. • Published In 1991 • Pages: 203-220
By: Zinovieff, Sofka.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of the role of the KAMAKI in Greek society. The term KAMAKI literally refers to a harpoon for spearing fish, but in the metaphorical sense used here refers to a Greek man pursuing a foreign woman with the intention of having sex. Zinovieff describes in detail the personality of these KAMAKI, and their techniques in attracting the women tourists. The author discusses three main themes in this paper. 'First, it shows that KAMAKI is a system of male competition, whereby men without material and social status establish other grounds for prestige. Second, the act of KAMAKI highlights the sense of antagonism that many Greeks have toward 'Europe' or the West,' and third, '… the desire of many KAMAKI to change their lives, to escape, or to take material wealth or prestige from the West' (p. 203).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Conversation
- Status, role, and prestige
- Gender status
- Ethnosociology
- Sexual stimulation
- 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
- 1985-1987
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1985-1987
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Town of Platanos (a pseudonym), Greece
- NotesAdditional notes
- Sofka Zinovieff
- For bibliographical references see source 83: [Loizos and Papataxiarchis]
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 90047780
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Greece