Elymbos: A Karpathian village: The structure of an "Archaic" society
Abstract
Elymbos, situated on the Island of Karpathos. is a deeply stratified
village community, structured around three complementary
dichotomies: the first, between men and women, is revealed in the ex
istence of two lines of descent: the one paternal/masculine, the other
maternal/feminine: the second dichotomy is founded on relative age.
introducing discrimination between the oldest and youngest of both
sexes; the third is between two socio-professional groups: agri
culturists and shepherds. This system constitutes the reference
model.
Mass emigration is causing the progressive depopulation of the
village. Yet. even if the periodical return of the emigrants has led to
the upheaval of traditional social organization, the restructuring of
society which reveals a conflict between two different sets of values:
that of the tradiotional system and that of the outside world, is
superimposed on the reference model, though it has been drained of
its functional substance.
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Capetanakis, S. (1981). Elymbos: A Karpathian village: The structure of an "Archaic" society. The Greek Review of Social Research, 200–207. https://doi.org/10.12681/grsr.576
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