The Ethnography of Greece

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Central facets of Greek society and culture as depicted by ethnographers and other social scientists since the mid-sixties. The emphasis is on institutions, modes of living, options, contests and negotiations of everyday existence in the Greek society of today. The "traditional" will come into the picture as one among other cultural frames of reference in terms of which people in Greece behave and "cope" in different circumstances and situations. The course cultivates in the student an ethnographic sensibility, i.e. the ability and willingness to put oneself in the place of the people one has come to study and become aware of one's own cultural conditioning.