The Poetics of Manhood:
Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village
Michael Herzfeld

Paper | 1988 | $46.95 / £32.95 | ISBN: 9780691102443
336 pp.

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"The Cretan mountain-dwellers are in particular famous for their sustained resistance to Turkish rule and then to German occupation. Their values, well-expressed in the motto of the Cretan writer Kazantzakis--'I hope for nothing; I fear nothing; I am free'--made them heroes at times when such qualities were positively endorsed in a Greece fighting to escape foreign domination. Today inevitably they are frowned on; Cretan shepherds are now caricatured as 'goat thieves and knife pullers', a survival of primitivism outrageous in a modern state. Herzfeld's excellent and sensitive ethnography of the pseudonymous village and inhabitants of Glendi, a mountain village in central Crete, is concerned with just these attributes, the ways they are lived and reproduced among Glendiots."--Olivia Harris, Times Higher Education Supplement

Another Princeton book authored or coauthored by Michael Herzfeld:

• A Place in History: Social and Monumental Time in a Cretan Town.

Subject Areas:

• Anthropology
• Gender Studies

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