CE Day 10 Agenda: Video: Life Chances: Four Families in a Changing Cypriot Village

   Life Chances:
 Four Families in a Changing Cypriot Village
(43 min., 1974, UM DULUTH Martin Library Video Cassette VC 4926)

An "Emic" analysis of a Greek family in Cyprus ...

(Peter Loizos Links to an external site.)

(course viewing guide)

Major Characteristics of Anthropology

one of which is . . .

• comparative methods: as major approaches to the study of human behavior development and structure
  
  

• REM: Comparison / Contrast
  from the suggested writing/development strategies and the discussion of
  Kypseli: Women and Men apart -- a Divided Reality
  
  
  • Note how things are the same and how they are different.
    
    In the Kypseli case, a logical intravillage comparison / contrast would be with / between "The Divided Reality" of the women's world and the men's world.

• Compare / Contrast
  
  

  Kypseli Vasilika Life Chances (Peter Loizos Links to an external site. film) Life in a Changing Greek Village: Karpofora and its Reluctant Farmers Links to an external site., Stanley E. Aschenbrenner (Kendall/Hunt, 1986.) Thessalonikia (Salonika) Villages Discussions of Greek Villages and Greek Ethnology / Ethnography in Europe in the Anthropological Imagination

  
  
  
  • How are they Greek?
    [or Irish, or English, Scottish, or Hungarian?]
    
    
  • How are they villages?
    
    
  • How are they "peasant communities"?
    
    
  • How are they "island communities"?
    (as per discussion in Parman, Europe in the Anthropological Imagination)
    
    
  • How are they part of
    larger social/cultural systems?
    
    
  • How are they representative of
    larger social/cultural systems?
    
    
  • How are all three of these "Master Texts" relevant to today's Anthropology of Europe?
    
    

(viewing guide for Life Chances)