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- catalog abstract "This compelling text and dramatic photographic essay convey the emotional power of the death rituals of a small Greek village--the funeral, the singing of laments, the distribution of food, the daily visits to the graves, and especially the rite of exhumation. These rituals help Greek villagers face the universal paradox of mourning: how can the living sustain relationships with the dead and at the same time bring them to an end, in order to continue to live meaningfully as members of a community? That is the villagers' dilemma, and our own. Thirty-one moving photographs (reproduced in duotone to do justice to their great beauty) combine with vivid descriptions of the bereaved women of "Potamia" and with the words of the funeral laments to allow the reader an unusual emotional identification with the people of rural Greece as they struggle to integrate the experience of death into their daily lives.".
- catalog contributor b636528.
- catalog contributor b636529.
- catalog coverage "Greece Rural conditions.".
- catalog coverage "Greece Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "c1982.".
- catalog date "1982".
- catalog date "c1982.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1982.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 153-161.".
- catalog description "This compelling text and dramatic photographic essay convey the emotional power of the death rituals of a small Greek village--the funeral, the singing of laments, the distribution of food, the daily visits to the graves, and especially the rite of exhumation. These rituals help Greek villagers face the universal paradox of mourning: how can the living sustain relationships with the dead and at the same time bring them to an end, in order to continue to live meaningfully as members of a community? That is the villagers' dilemma, and our own. Thirty-one moving photographs (reproduced in duotone to do justice to their great beauty) combine with vivid descriptions of the bereaved women of "Potamia" and with the words of the funeral laments to allow the reader an unusual emotional identification with the people of rural Greece as they struggle to integrate the experience of death into their daily lives.".
- catalog extent "ix, 169 p., [31] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0691000271 (pbk.) :".
- catalog identifier "0691031320 :".
- catalog issued "1982".
- catalog issued "c1982.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Greece Rural conditions.".
- catalog spatial "Greece Social life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "Greece".
- catalog spatial "Greece.".
- catalog subject "393/.09495 19".
- catalog subject "Death Social aspects Greece.".
- catalog subject "Funeral rites and ceremonies Greece.".
- catalog subject "GT3251.A2 D36 1982".
- catalog subject "Laments Greece History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Laments Greece.".
- catalog title "The death rituals of rural Greece / by Loring M. Danforth ; photography by Alexander Tsiaras.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".