The Poetics of Manhood : Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village

the Cretan Mountain-dwellers Are In Particular Famous For Their Sustained Resistance To Turkish Rule And Then To German Occupation. Their Values, Well-expressed In The Motto Of The Cretan Writer Kazantzakis--`i Hope For Nothing; I Fear Nothing; I Am Free'--made Them Heroes At Times When Such Qualities Were Positively Endorsed In A Greece Fighting To Escape Foreign Domination. Today Inevitably They Are Frowned On; Cretan Shepherds Are Now Caricatured As `goat Thieves And Knife Pullers', A Survival Of Primitivism Outrageous In A Modern State. Herzfeld's Excellent And Sensitive Ethnography Of The Pseudonymous Village And Inhabitants Of Glendi, A Mountain Village In Central Crete, Is Concerned With Just These Attributes, The Ways They Are Lived And Reproduced Among Glendiots.--olivia Harris, Times Higher Education Supplement olivia Harris - Times Higher Education Supplement the Cretan Mountain-dwellers Are In Particular Famous For Their Sustained Resistance To Turkish Rule And Then To German Occupation. Their Values, Well-expressed In The Motto Of The Cretan Writer Kazantzakis—'i Hope For Nothing; I Fear Nothing; I Am Free'—made Them Heroes At Times When Such Qualities Were Positively Endorsed In A Greece Fighting To Escape Foreign Domination. Today Inevitably They Are Frowned On; Cretan Shepherds Are Now Caricatured As 'goat Thieves And Knife Pullers', A Survival Of Primitivism Outrageous In A Modern State. Herzfeld's Excellent And Sensitive Ethnography Of The Pseudonymous Village And Inhabitants Of Glendi, A Mountain Village In Central Crete, Is Concerned With Just These Attributes, The Ways They Are Lived And Reproduced Among Glendiots. In 1671, just a few years after the Turkish invasion of Crete, Ottoman documents made the first mention of the hamlet of Glendi. The description for this book, The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village, will be forthcoming.