The last word : women, death, and divination in Inner Mani / C. Nadia Seremetakis
- Bib ID:
- 1274074
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- Author:
- Seremetakis, C. Nadia (Constantina Nadia)
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1991
- ix, 275 p., [36] p. of plates : ill., 2 maps ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0226748758
- 0226748766
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: Dedication
- Acknowledgment
- On Laments and Transliteration
- Maps
- 1. Contexts
- Fragments and Margins
- The Politics of Pain
- Departures
- Dutiful Ethnographer
- Diachronic Death
- 2. Social History and Social Organization
- Ecology and Topography
- Settlement Pattern
- The Village
- Social Organization
- Alliance
- The War Tower
- Social Stratification
- The Economy and Division of Labor
- 3. The Warnings
- Multiple Entries
- The Bird of the Dead
- Apparition
- Dreams
- Low Voicing
- Dream Codes
- The Economy of Dreams
- 4. The Screaming
- Death, Birth, and the Outside
- High Voicing
- The Silent and Naked Death
- The Good Death
- 5. The Appearance
- On the Road
- From Segmentary Kinship to Shared Substance
- Center and Peripheries
- 6. The Ethics of Antiphony
- Categories of Performance and Pain
- Customary Law: The Women's Jury
- Memorization
- Polyphony and the Orders of Discourse
- Incorporations or the Double Ceremony
- The Counterpoint
- The Breath
- Sound and Violence
- Truth and Pain
- Truth, Pain, and Ethnography
- Historical Context
- 7. Weaving Conflict
- Men's Council / Women's Mourning Ritual
- Kalliopi's Story
- Tracking Vangelio
- 8. Women and Priests, Voice and Text
- Mourning Ritual versus Funeral
- Historical Context
- Procession and Burial
- 9. The Second Body and the Poetics of Labor
- Hertz and the New Body
- The Maniat Double Burial
- The First Facing or The Meeting of the Eyes
- The Second Body and Its Reading
- The Otherworld
- Death, Exhumation, and Women's Labor
- 10. The Visible Invisible: Divination, History, and the Self
- The Archaeology of Feeling
- Shadows
- Cynics and Others
- Cosmological Construction
- Dream Time, Labor Time, and Power
- Dreaming in the Field
- 11. Eschatology
- Shadows: A Photographic Essay
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-264) and indexes.
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