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Greek festivals, modern and ancient. A comparison of female and male values. Volume 2. / by Evy Johanne Haland.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haland, Evy Johanne, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Festivals--Greece--History.
- Festivals.
- Religion and culture--Greece.
- Religion and culture.
- Fasts and feasts--Greece--History.
- Fasts and feasts.
- Sex role--Greece--History.
- Sex role.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (587 pages) : illustrations, tables
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
- Summary:
- This volume represents a multi-faceted, cross-period product of fieldwork conducted in contemporary Greece in combination with ancient sources. Based on a comparative analysis of important religious festivals and life-cycle rituals, the book investigates the importance of cults connected with the Greek female sphere and its relation to the official male-dominated ideology. Within these festivals are encountered supplementary, complementary or competing ideologies connected with men and women, and it is shown that there is not a one-way power structure or male dominance within Greek culture, but rather competing powers linked to the two sexes and their respective spheres. In addition to gender, the book also explores the relationship between the "great" and "little" societies, in the form of official and popular religion. As such, it will serve to broaden the reader's knowledge of ancient, but also modern, society, because it concerns the relationship between various spheres of life which each possess their own competing and overlapping, but also co-existing, value-systems.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- A Note on Transliteration
- List of Tables
- Chapter Six
- Chapter Seven
- Chapter Eight
- Bibliography
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- Appendix 3
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 21, 2017).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-9611-X
- OCLC:
- 991595909
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