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Title: A Place in History
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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.
Author: Michael Herzfeld
EAN: 9780691028552
Format: Paperback
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
ISBN-10: 0691028559
ISBN: 9780691028552
Language: English
Item Height: 235mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Weight: 482g
Genre: History
Subtitle: Social and Monumental Time in a Cretan Town
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date: 10/27/1991
Series: Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
Release Year: 1991

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