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Greek Festivals, Modern and Ancient : A Comparison of Female and Male Values Volume 1, Hardback Book

Greek Festivals, Modern and Ancient : A Comparison of Female and Male Values Volume 1 Hardback

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This volume represents a multi-faceted, cross-period product of fieldwork conducted in contemporary Greece in combination with ancient sources.

Based on a comparative analysis of important religious festivals and life-cycle rituals, the book investigates the importance of cults connected with the Greek female sphere and its relation to the official male-dominated ideology.

Within these festivals are encountered supplementary, complementary or competing ideologies connected with men and women, and it is shown that there is not a one-way power structure or male dominance within Greek culture, but rather competing powers linked to the two sexes and their respective spheres.

In addition to gender, the book also explores the relationship between the "great" and "little" societies, in the form of official and popular religion.

As such, it will serve to broaden the reader's knowledge of ancient, but also modern, society, because it concerns the relationship between various spheres of life which each possess their own competing and overlapping, but also co-existing, value-systems.

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