Last Word Women, Death, and Divination in Inner Mani

Based on years of fieldwork in both rural and urban Greece,The Last Wordexplores women's cultural resistance as they weave together diverse social practices: improvised antiphonic laments, divinatory dreaming, the care and tending of olive trees and the dead, and the inscription of emotions and the senses on a landscape of persons, things, and places. These practices compose the empowering poetics of the cultural periphery. C. Nadia Seremetakis liberates the analysis of gender from reductive binary models and pioneers the alternative perspective of self-reflexive "native anthropology" in European ethnography.Seremetakis, C. Nadia is the author of 'Last Word Women, Death, and Divination in Inner Mani', published 1991 under ISBN 9780226748764 and ISBN 0226748766.