The Last Word
Women, Death, and Divination in Inner Mani
Format:Paperback
Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
Published:1st Aug '91
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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 antiphonic laments, divinatory dreaming, the care and tending of olive trees and the dead, and the inscription of emotions and the senses on a landscape of persons, things, and places. These practices compose the empowering poetics of the cultural periphery. C. Nadia Seremetakis liberates the analysis of gender from reductive binary models and pioneers the alternative perspective of self-reflexive "native anthropology" in European ethnography.
ISBN: 9780226748764
Dimensions: 23mm x 15mm x 2mm
Weight: 482g
290 pages