Description
Book SynopsisProvides a view of what it means to be a Greek man or woman, married or unmarried, functioning within a complex society based on kinship ties. This title demonstrates that kinship and gender identities in Greece are not unitary and fixed: kinship is organized in several highly specific forms, and gender identities are plural.
Trade Review"[This] outstanding collection ... will without doubt be essential reading for anyone concerned with Greece, the Mediterranean, and the Balkans, especially in respect of the nexus between kinship, marriage, gender, friendship, religion and symbolism."--Social Anthropology
Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. ix*Introduction, pg. 1*Chapter 1. Gender, Kinship, and Religion: "Reconstructing" the Anthropology of Greece, pg. 29*Chapter 2. Cosmos and Gender in Village Greece, pg. 47*Chapter 3. Silence, Submission, and Subversion: Toward a Poetics of Womanhood, pg. 79*Chapter 4. The Resolution of Conflict through Song in Greek Ritual Therapy, pg. 98*Chapter 5. The Limits of Kinship, pg. 114*Chapter 6. Sisters in Christ: Metaphors of Kinship among Greek Nuns, pg. 135*Chapter 7. Friends of the Heart: Male Commensal Solidarity, Gender, and Kinship in Aegean Greece, pg. 156*Chapter 8. Going Out for Coffee? Contesting the Grounds of Gendered Pleasures in Everyday Sociability, pg. 180*Chapter 9. Hunters and Hunted: Kamaki and the Ambiguities of Sexual Predation in a Greek Town, pg. 203*Chapter 10. Gender, Sexuality, and the Person in Greek Culture, pg. 221*Contributors, pg. 235*Literature Cited, pg. 237*Index, pg. 255
