Tsiaras alexander danforth loring m (6 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Cloth, dj. Slight scuffing and edge wear to dj. Minor shelf wear to boards. Foxing to top edge of text block. Former owner's signature on ffep. Else clean.

Zustand: New. In English.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 234 pages. 7.75x9.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

New Jersey Princeton University Press 1982 Softcover, 248pp., 19x23cm., with 31 pictures, in good condition (covers with traces of use, paper edges and first and last pages a bit foxing, inside further in very good condition). ISBN 9780691000275. 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. Loring M. Danforth's sensitive use of symbolic and structural analysis complements his discussion of the social context in which these rituals occur. He explores important themes in rural Greek life, such as the position of women, patterns of reciprocity and obligation, and the nature of social relations within the family.…

Very Good (very minor wear covers; contents clean & tight with small crease to corner of few pages). Ink name stamp of "Timothy W. Kane" inside the front cover. Quarto: pictorial wraps; 169 pages plus 62 pages of plates & captions First Edition. Signed by Danforth on the half-title page. Uncommon to find a signed copy of this title. Photography by Alexander Tsiaras. (illustrator). Signed.…