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Greek adults' verbal play, or, how to train for cautionarticle 1992 • Hirschon, Renee
Greeks • Europe > Southeastern Europe
In this study, Hirschon examines word play between adults and children. She argues that the false stories and promises, lies and threats used by adults in adult-child discourse teach children to suspend belief in verbal utterances. Children learn tha...Heirs of the Greek catastropheBook 1989 • Hirschon, Renee
Greeks • Europe > Southeastern Europe
Hirschon has written an account of the history and culture of a longstanding urban refugee community near Piraeus, Greece. The government hurriedly built prefabricated housing for thousands of Asia Minor Greek refugees, who came to Greece after the 1...Open body/closed spaceessay 1978 • Hirschon, Renee
Greeks • Europe > Southeastern Europe
In this paper, Hirschon examines beliefs regarding the physical and symbolic attributes of women, which she argues together influence women's conduct and status. According to Hirschon, Greeks believe that women can control their sexual urges whereas ...Under one roofessay 1983 • Hirschon, Renee
Greeks • Europe > Southeastern Europe
In this study, Hirschon examines a poverty-stricken urban refugee settlement in the port city of Pireaus and how it maintained its rural traditions over a 50-year period. The traditions include arranged marriages, dowry, and uxorilocal postmarital re...The woman-environment relationshiparticle 1985 • Hirschon, Renee
Greeks • Europe > Southeastern Europe
This is a study of how urban women define, create, and modify space through their cultural practices. Furthermore, these practices helped to maintain over a fifty year period, or four generations, what was originally planned to be only temporary hous...