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The distinct and chronologically published three issues, Social Formation (1984), Customs and Traditions (1986), and Folk Art (1992), which were accompanied by the general subtitle Greek Folklore, I deemed it appropriate to reprint together in this volume.
From the outset, the work had been conceived, designed, and written as a whole. The segmented publication was merely dictated by the need for the students of the Philosophy School and the Educational Departments of the University of Ioannina, followed by the Department of Primary Education of the University of Athens along with other departments of other Universities, not to wait long to obtain the textbook primarily intended for them, when it would be completed.
A work that was designed to clearly, simply, yet sufficiently document a teaching manual, an attempt to introduce what constitutes the breadth and depth of our folk culture, in its traditional as well as modern versions.
And this I wanted to happen not so much with theory, but with the things themselves and the actions of their carriers theoretically examined, classified, and correlated. I have the impression that my desire to adequately present the panorama of folk culture at various levels (of things, of the material and inner needs of various groups, of their actions and activities) has been satisfactorily achieved.
It may be worth mentioning just one point, where my reference, if made today, would be somewhat modified. Speaking at the beginning of the first part about the rural population and the spread of an urban lifestyle among it, while, on the other hand, this population fed extremely high percentages of the spaces of the large urban centers, I wrote that this -almost the entirety of the Greek population now- harbors a deeper dichotomy, being both a farmer and a city dweller, and indeed in a way that does not bridge the differences but leads to serious imbalances and shifts.
Today I believe that this contradictory twin -farmer-city dweller- which exists in almost every Greek, more than it divides them, suspends their complete urbanization. And this is something positive, not negative: as an underground, often unrecognized reaction to the threatening global homogenizing leveling.
[Excerpt from the text of the preface]
Manufacturer
- Author
- Michalis G. Meraklis
- Publisher
- Kardamitsa
- Type
- Humanities, Folklore, Culture
- Language
- Greek
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 656
- Release Date
- 10/2011
- Publication Date
- 2011
- Dimensions
- 14x21 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789603542810
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