Change and immobility in mountain Corfu
Abstract
This paper is based on a historical anthropological study carried out
at Episkepsi, a mountain village in Corfu. Archival material has
helped to trace the evolutionof the demographic and economic struc
tures of the community for more than two centuries. During the
inter-war period the peasant serfs (coloni) became land owners thanks
to the agrarian reform, at the same time when modern technology
was being introduced in the village economy. This produced a radical
change in termsof social relations of production, but the village soon
adapted to the new reality while pursuing the traditional economy
based upon olive cultivation—which has become the only commer
cialised production of the village.
Episkepsi is now rather prosperous and has been able to adopt a
modern way of life. It has broken its geographic isolation by opening
itself to the wider society, but it has also preserved part of its tradi
tional structure, thus ensuring the survival of the community as a
social unit.
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Couroucli, M. (1981). Change and immobility in mountain Corfu. The Greek Review of Social Research, 221–230. https://doi.org/10.12681/grsr.578
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