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In the third edition of this important and influential book, Michael Herzfeld revisits the idea of 'cultural intimacy'. The chapters examine a range of topics touching on the relationship …
Based on years of fieldwork in both rural and urban Greece, The Last Word explores women's cultural resistance as they weave together diverse social practices: improvised …
This book draws upon anthropology, feminism and postmodernism to offer a penetrating and challenging study of how gender operates. The book offers a radical critique of much of the …
In Dangerous Voices Holst-Warhaft investigates the power and meaning of the ancient lament, especially women's mourning of the dead, and sets out to discover why legislation …
THIS BOOK had its genesis in a trip Alexander Tsiaras made to the village in northern Greece his parents had left some thirty-five years earlier. He lived there from June 1975 to …
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The whole of this paper is devoted to analysis of a single phenomenon–the “cooked dinner”. Such a meal is quite distinctive and can be described with a high degree of precision. While …
Second, Revised EditionThe relationship between women and space has now been recognized as an important issue for feminist discussion. Developments in psychology and …
Own or Other Culture challenges those anthropologists who suggest that fieldwork in the'West'is easy or merely a reiteration of what is already'known'to either Westerners or non …