| The Last Word: Women, Death, and Divination in Inner Mani Contributor(s): Seremetakis, C. Nadia (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226748758 ISBN-13: 9780226748757 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $99.99 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 1991 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Death & Dying - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 393.9 |
| LCCN: 90040640 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.28" W x 9.27" (1.40 lbs) 290 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Seremetakis, C. Nadia: - For more information about C. Nadia Seremetakis, visit http: //www.seremetakis.com/. |