Traces of Old Legends in a Modern Local Tradition: Preliminary Considerations on a Greek Insular Community
| dc.contributor.author | Παπαχριστοφόρου, Μαριλένα | el |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-11-24T17:18:13Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-11-24T17:18:13Z | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1406-0957 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://olympias.lib.uoi.gr/jspui/handle/123456789/12387 | |
| dc.rights | Default Licence | - |
| dc.subject | beliefs | en |
| dc.subject | cults | en |
| dc.subject | greece | en |
| dc.subject | history | en |
| dc.subject | identities | en |
| dc.subject | legends | en |
| dc.subject | mythology | en |
| dc.subject | orality | en |
| dc.title | Traces of Old Legends in a Modern Local Tradition: Preliminary Considerations on a Greek Insular Community | en |
| heal.abstract | A local legend recorded in several variants during a fieldwork research on a small East-Aegean island is the crux of the present paper. The legend discusses the habitation of the island by two brothers, Elias and Nicolas, about 200 years ago; the population of the island still includes their descendants. The recorded variants of this particular legend are usually considered more or less reliable historical sources; in this sense they touch upon oral history and contribute to the construction of a consistent identity of the island's inhabitants. A closer and more attentive approach to a group of legends connected to the above mentioned one reveals a second semantic level with obvious connotations: the cavern inhabited by the two brothers, the symbolic load of their first names, the fraternal conflict underlined by the opposition of land cultivation and animal husbandry, accompanied by the division of the grounds, etc. The principle questions this paper attempts to answer are how the story corresponds to real events and facts and to which degree does it convey and mute pre-existing mythological elements, which are related either to the surrounding Modern Greek mythological tradition or the possible mythological remnants of a remote (local) past, the latter partially revealed in archaeological research. In this paper it is argued that the position of this legend draws heavily from the limited local cultural context. Although being an "independent" narrative describing precise historical facts and personae, it has nevertheless developed in consistent exchange with other narratives, beliefs and representations. It is thus proposed that the story of Nicolas and Elias is part of a whole, though limited, mythological system inside the boundaries of the minute island. | en |
| heal.access | campus | - |
| heal.fullTextAvailability | TRUE | - |
| heal.identifier.secondary | <Go to ISI>://000264838300005 | - |
| heal.journalName | Folklore-Electronic Journal of Folklore | en |
| heal.journalType | peer-reviewed | - |
| heal.language | English | - |
| heal.language | en | - |
| heal.publicationDate | 2008 | - |
| heal.recordProvider | Πανεπιστήμιο Ιωαννίνων. Φιλοσοφική Σχολή. Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας | el |
| heal.type | journalArticle | - |
| heal.type.el | Άρθρο Περιοδικού | el |
| heal.type.en | Journal article | en |
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