Title The last word : women, death, and divination in Inner Mani / C. Nadia Seremetakis

Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1991

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Description ix, 275 pages, 36 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, 2 maps ; 24 cm Contents 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 Analysis Death customs Greece Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-264) and indexes Subject Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Greece -- Manē. Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Greece -- Mani Peninsula. Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Greece -- Mani Laments -- Greece. Philosophy, Greek (Modern) Social structure -- Greece -- Manē. Social structure -- Greece -- Mani Social structure -- Greece -- Mani Peninsula. Women -- Greece -- Manē -- Social conditions. Women -- Greece -- Mani Peninsula -- Social conditions. Women -- Greece -- Mani -- Social conditions Manē (Greece) -- Religious life and customs. Mani Peninsula (Greece) -- Religious life and customs. LC no. 90040640 ISBN 0226748758 (cloth) 0226748766 (paperback)

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