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Cosmos, Life, and Liturgy in a Greek Orthodox Village

Cosmos, Life, and Liturgy in a Greek Orthodox Village

Cosmos, Life, and Liturgy in a Greek Orthodox Village
Juliet Du Boulay

In 1974 Juliet du Boulay published her first work, Portrait of a Greek Mountain Village, now considered a classic text for the anthropology of Modern Greece. This sequel, the fruit of a lifetime’s reflection, adds new dimensions to this portrait, exploring the all-encompassing religious awareness of the same village community, and its rootedness in both Orthodox Christian and pre- or non-Christian ideas and practices. The story is told through a steady development of rich ethnographic detail in which the people come to life in all their vitality, contradictoriness, humour, realism and courage. From the particularities of life in the village a picture is built up in which the Byzantine legacy intertwines with fragments of antiquity, both Greek and Jewish, and with the universal themes, both tragic and hopeful, which confront man as he struggles to make sense of life. In this way a compelling pattern of symbols and images is revealed which underpin every action and event in the human and natural spheres, and is described here lucidly, convincingly and with great affection.

462 pages
Paperback, hardcover
Published 2009
size: 8.5 x 5.4 x 1.25"
ISBN: 978-960-7120-25-0 (paperback), 978-960-7120-26-7 (hardcover)
SKU 9789607120267
Weight 2.00 lbs
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