essay
Cosmos and gender in village Greece
contested identities : gender and kinship in modern greece • Princeton, N.J. • Published In 1991 • Pages: 47-78
By: Du Boulay, Juliet.
Abstract
This study attempts to address a few of the cosmological issues involved in ideas of gender as held in the Greek village of Amboli at the time of the author's fieldwork. These issues are: 'how far Greek villagers conceive God and Christ in gender terms; whether they conceive the natural world (insofar as it is separable from God) in such terms; and what relation can be discerned between the divine and natural attributes revealed in the answer to the first two questions, and the construction of gender in social life' (p. 47). The final section of this work deals with death and particularly with mourning. The author suggests that mourning not only serves as a means of reconstructing the cosmic order and reaffirming its authority but also accomplishes this through images of gender which associate women, the flesh, and pollution in opposition to that order.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2003
- Region
- Europe
- Sub Region
- Southeastern Europe
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 2002
- Field Date
- 1966-1968, 1970-1973, 1980
- Coverage Date
- 1966-1980
- Coverage Place
- village of Amboli, North Euboea, Greece
- Notes
- Juliet Du Boulay
- For bibliographical references see source 83: [Loizos and Papataxiarchis]
- LCCN
- 90047780
- LCSH
- Greece