Author: JUST, ROGER
Title: A Greek Island Cosmos : Kinship and community in Meganisi
Description: Oxford, James Currey. 2000, First Thus. (ISBN: 0852552688) Soft cover. Book, "Meganisi is one of the smallest and most remote of the Greek Ionian islands . [this book ].reveals the historical dynamism of what appears at first sight to be a forgotten backwater. The villages of Meganisi are also .tightly-knit communities, and this detailed ethnographic study explores the basis on which th islander's solidarity and sense of identity are constructed and reconstructed despite population mobility and economic change : the values, sentiments and structures of kinship and family." 276p. illus, maps. bibliography. index. Fine.

Keywords: 0852552688 Kinship Family Community Life Greece Greek Ionian Islands Anthropology Social & Customs Greeks - Social Studies & Anthropology


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