Contested Identities
Gender and Kinship in Modern Greece
1st Edition
Published on 24. October 2016
272 pages
978-1-4008-8438-4 (ISBN)
Description
In this collection leading anthropologists provide a comprehensive yet highly nuanced view of what it means to be a Greek man or woman, married or unmarried, functioning within a complex society based on kinship ties. Exploring the ways in which sexual identity is constructed, these authors discuss, for example, how going out for coffee embodies dominant ideas about female sexuality, moral virtue, and autonomy; why men in a Lesbos village maintain elaborate friendships with nonfamily members while the women do not; why young housewives often participate in conflict-resolution rituals; and how the dominant role of mature married householders is challenged by unmarried persons who emphasize spontaneity and personal autonomy. This collection 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, competing, antagonistic, and are continually being redefined by contexts and social change.
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Content
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
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
