Michael Herzfeld

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A Place in History: Social and Monumental Time in a Cretan TownPaperback, 27 October 1991

A Place in History: Social and Monumental Time in a Cretan Town
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Part of Series
Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
Part of Series
Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History (Paperback)
Part of Series
Princeton Modern Greek Studies (Paperback)
Print Length
330 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Date Published
27 Oct 1991
ISBN-10
0691028559
ISBN-13
9780691028552

Description

Michael Herzfeld describes what happens when a bureaucracy charged with historic conservation clashes with a local populace hostile to the state and suspicious of tourism. Focusing on the Cretan town of Rethemnos, once a center of learning under Venetian rule and later inhabited by the Turks, he examines major questions confronting conservators and citizens as they negotiate the "ownership" of history: Who defines the past? To whom does the past belong? What is "traditional" and how is this determined? Exploring the meanings of the built environment for Rethemnos's inhabitants, Herzfeld finds that their interest in it has more to do with personal histories and the immediate social context than with the formal history that attracts the conservators. He also investigates the inhabitants' social practices from the standpoints of household and kin group, political association, neighborhood, gender ideology, and the effects of these on attitudes toward home ownership. In the face of modernity, where tradition is an object of both reverence and commercialism, Rethemnos emerges as an important ethnographic window onto the ambiguous cultural fortunes of Greece.

Product Details

Author:
Michael Herzfeld
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
27 October 1991
Dimensions:
23.42 x 15.49 x 1.83 cm
ISBN-10:
0691028559
ISBN-13:
9780691028552
Language:
English
Location:
Princeton
Pages:
330
Weight:
453.59 gm

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