Elymbos, village de Karpathos : Structuration d' une societe "archaisante"
Part of : Επιθεώρηση κοινωνικών ερευνών ; No.Special, 1981, pages 200-207
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Elymbos: A Karpathian village : The structure of an "Archaic" society
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Elymbos, situated on the Island of Karpathos. is a deeply stratifiedvillage community, structured around three complementarydichotomies: the first, between men and women, is revealed in the existence of two lines of descent: the one paternal/masculine, the othermaternal/feminine: the second dichotomy is founded on relative age.introducing discrimination between the oldest and youngest of bothsexes; the third is between two socio-professional groups: agriculturists and shepherds. This system constitutes the referencemodel.Mass emigration is causing the progressive depopulation of the village. Yet. even if the periodical return of the emigrants has led tothe upheaval of traditional social organization, the restructuring ofsociety which reveals a conflict between two different sets of values:that of the tradiotional system and that of the outside world, issuperimposed on the reference model, though it has been drained ofits functional substance.
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