Volume 40, Number 13 · July 15, 1993
Haunted Islands
By Edmund Keeley
Demons and the Devil: Moral Imagination in Modern Greek Culture
by Charles Stewart
Princeton University Press, 330 pp., $16.95 (paper)
Greece has had a particular fascination for Anglo-American anthropologists in this century, especially since World War II. Foreign visitors usually fall in love with what Henry Miller called 'one's own divine image reflected in a thousand dazzling facets.' But it is the modern culture of villages, whether on the mainland or the islands, that has appealed most to formal and informal students of the country. Charles Stewart's richly evocative exploration of a village on the Cycladic island of Naxos is the latest in a series of distinguished studies of Greece by anthropologists writing in English—one thinks of the work of Ernestine Friedl, John Campbell, Juliet du Boulay, and Michael Herzfeld—each of which helps to define the country's complexities by way of the changing customs and traditions of rural Greece.
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