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Power through submission in the Anastenaria: Loring M. Danforth
Journal of modern Greek studies • 1 (1) • Published In 1983 • Pages: 203-223
By: Danforth, Loring M..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a paper on a woman's healing cult and ritual called ANASTENARIA. In the ritual women are possessed by St, Constantine, walk on fire, and perform curing rites. In Greece's patricentric rural society, women must show deference to their spouses in public to maintain family honor. Women gain power and prestige through the cult, far beyond what they could obtain restricted as they are to the private realm of home and family. The cult allows women to enter a public sphere and form extra-domestic relationships. Danforth argues that one reason men accept the cult and the freedom it gives women is because the possessing spirit is male.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gender status
- Household
- Family relationships
- Social control
- Magical and mental therapy
- Revelation and divination
- Congregations
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2002
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1975-1976
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1975-1976
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Ayia Eleni, Serres, Macedonia, Greece
- NotesAdditional notes
- Special Issue: Women and men in Greece : a society in transition
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-223)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 84642094
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Greece