Research Catalog

Title

Contingent countryside : Settlement, economy, and land use in the southern Argolid since 1700 / edited by Susan Buck Sutton ; contributors, Keith W. Adams [and others].

Publication

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2000], ©2000.

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Additional Authors

• Sutton, Susan Buck.
• Argolid Exploration Project.

Description

xii, 391 pages : illustrations; 29 cm

Summary

• "The essays in this volume are united by their attention to the many ways in which residents of Greece's southern Argolid peninsula have attempted to shelter, feed, and advance the economic situation of their families over the last three centuries.
• The essays in the volume integrate ethnographic, geographic, historical, and archaeological methodologies to yield an image of the southern Argolid as a contingent countryside whose boundaries, character, people, and external connections have been reconfigured time and again.".
• "This volume, the fourth in a series of books deriving from the Argolid Exploration Project conducted by Stanford University, sets forth the material conditions of rural Greek life as mutable and negotiated in ways that complement archaeological interest in the repeated settlement fluctuations of the Greek past. It also exemplifies recent ethnographic shifts in conceiving other aspects of modern Greek life."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Land use > Argolis Peninsula
• Agriculture > Economic aspects > Argolis Peninsula
• Argolis Peninsula (Greece) > Economic conditions
• Argolis Peninsula (Greece) > Social conditions

Note

• "A publication of the Argolid Exploration Project."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-382) and index.

Contents

• Foreword / Michael H. Jameson -- 1. Introduction: Past and Present in Rural Greece / Susan Buck Sutton -- 2. The Southern Argolid from Byzantine to Ottoman Times / Peter W. Topping -- 3. The Agrarian Economy of the Ermionidha Around 1700: An Ethnohistorical Reconstruction / Hamish A. Forbes -- 4. Social and Economic Formations in Kranidhi (1821-1981): A Preliminary Investigation / Marina Petronoti -- 5. Liquid Landscapes: Demographic Transitions in the Ermionidha / Susan Buck Sutton -- 6. Changing House and Population Size on Methana, 1880-1996: Anomaly or Pattern? / Mari H. Clarke -- 7. The Material Culture and Settlement History of Agro-Pastoralism in the Koinotis of Dhidhima: An Ethnoarchaeological Perspective / Claudia Chang -- 8. The Present as Past: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Modern Sites in the Pikrodhafni Valley / Priscilla M. Murray and P. Nick Kardulias -- 9. The Changing Household Economy on Methana, 1880-1996 / Mari H. Clarke --
• 10. Dowry and Inheritance: Their Relationship to Land Fragmentation and Risk Reduction on Methana / Hamish A. Forbes -- 11. Mutable Boundaries: Subdivision and Consolidation in a Geek Village, 1936-1978 / Keith W. Adams -- 12. Neighbors and Pastures: Reciprocity and Access to Pasture / Harold A. Koster -- 13. The "Commons" and the Market: Ecological Effects of Communal Land Tenure and Market Integration on Local Resources in the Mediterranean / Harold A. Koster and Hamish A. Forbes -- 14. The "Traditional" Craftsman as Entrepreneur: A Potter in Ermioni / P. Nick Kardulias -- 15. "Nobody Weaves Here Anymore": Hand Textile Production in the Southern Argolid / Joan Bouza Koster -- App. A. Land Measurement in the Peloponnesos During the Second Venetian Occupation / Hamish A. Forbes -- App. B. Population and Settlements of the Ermionidha / Susan Buck Sutton.

ISBN

0804733155 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

99055596

OCLC

• ocm42752729
• SCSB-3902786

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries