The Greek Vampire: A Study of Cyclic Symbolism in Marriage and Death

Boulay, Juliet du

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“…Understanding of inheritance in terms of genetics is mainly associated with twentieth‐century scientific advances. Vampire spirits, in contrast, have a rather longer and more widespread cultural presence, recorded in the literature on Greece (du Boulay 1982; 1984), colonial Africa (White ), and Malaysia (Carsten ), amongst other places. Like genes, vampires are associated in the popular imagination with blood.…”

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Introduction: blood will out

Carsten

2013

Royal Anthropological Inst

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What is blood? The many meanings of blood vividly attest to its polyvalent qualities and its unusual capacity for accruing layers of symbolic resonance. Life and death; nurturance and violence; connection and exclusion; kinship and sacrifice – the associations multiply, flowing between domains in a quite uncontainable manner. Whether expressed in the rhetoric of familial, racial, ethnic, or national exclusion, or in calls to violent action, idioms of blood often have exceptional emotional force. Drawing together the historical and ethnographic case studies presented in this volume – from the literal presence of blood in spaces of blood donation to the metaphorical deployment of sanguinary idioms in depictions of the economy – this introduction examines blood's special qualities as bodily substance, material, and metaphor. In sketching out a ‘theory of blood’, it suggests why such a comparative undertaking might be of value.

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Introduction: blood will out

Carsten

2013

Royal Anthropological Inst

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“…All the same, some European kinship systems do contain elements which are tantalizingly reminiscent of ESK . Du Boulay (1982; 1984) has described a system of asymmetrical marriage exchange between cognatic descent groups in an endogamous Greek village. The system lacked the neatness of the lineage‐based systems described in ESK – in that the pattern of exchanges changed from generation to generation, and the cognatic descent groups overlapped and ceased to be recognized once they reached a certain generational depth – but it drew on similar principles.…”

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Conscripts And Christians: Representing Kinship And Affinity In The Carnian Alps

Heady

2003

Royal Anthropological Inst

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The theory of exchange marriage has had a rather limited impact on the anthropology of Europe. Its relevance to European ethnography might increase if it were extended to include representations of marriage exchange between generational groups. An analysis of collective celebrations of kinship and courtship suggests that they express the principles of exchange marriage in a way that fits the corporate structure of many European villages. The celebrations draw on ecclesiastical and military symbolism, and the analysis has implications for our understanding of the relationship between popular attitudes to the Church, local community, and state. The results confirm the fruitfulness of combining interpretative and formal approaches to kinship analysis.

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“…107 It is worth mentioning that this notion, concerning the tie between the body not being properly decomposed and the soul being imprisoned in an intermediate state, would later be found in the popular beliefs concerning revenants or vampires. See, for example, the cases of the Balkans and Greece during the modern period;Danforth 1982, 36-37;Barber 1988; Čajkanović 1998, 72-84;du Boulay 1998, 85-108. 108 Bodner 2015Bacci 2017a, 135.…”

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Staging Holiness: The Case of Hospitaller Rhodes (ca. 1309-1522)

Zoitou¹

2021

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First and foremost, I would like to thank my Ph.D. advisor, Michele Bacci, for entrusting me with the research that produced the present book, a revised version of my Ph.D. thesis of the same title defended in 2019 at the University of Fribourg. From 2014 on, he has supported all aspects of my work and has been a constant source of invaluable and knowledgeable input.I am equally thankful to Maria Vassilaki for her uninterrupted, generous help. From the time of completing my MA thesis at the University of Thessaly and ever since, she has encouraged and provided me with ample resources and inspiration on Byzantine and Post-Byzantine art; I also thank her for agreeing to be my external Ph.D. examiner.The harmonious collaboration among the team members of our research project at the University of Fribourg ensured the sound structure of our effort, for which I wish to thank Argyri Dermitzaki, Vesna Scepanovic, Gianvito Campobasso, and Angela Schiffhauer. Argyri and Vesna, both preparing their theses along with mine, offered companionship on what is by nature a solitary path.My deepest thanks go to Anthony Luttrell, whom I was fortunate to meet during my first trip to Malta in 2016, at the National Library in Valletta. Not only did he provide me with plentiful information and references concerning the Hospitallers at Rhodes, but he also generously dedicated much valuable time to reading the largest part of my manuscript.The Ephorate of Antiquities of the Dodecanese always welcomed my various requests at Rhodes, during my visits to its library and archives, and from afar; I would especially like to thank Konstantia Kefala, Katerina Manoussou-Ntella, and Giorgos Ntellas for their generous assistance.My trip to Malta in 2016 was a vital part of my research. I wish to thank Mario Buhagiar for his indispensable guidance and for sharing his deep knowledge of the Knights' art and traditions during the short time we were able to converse. Likewise, Maroma Camilleri at the National Library of Malta and Charlene Vella, Emanuel Buttigieg, and Keith Sciberras at the University of Malta were obliging. I wish to acknowledge in particular Fr. John Azzopardi at the Archives of the Metropolitan Cathedral, Mdina, for guiding me through the archives and for permission to take photographs, as well as Mario Gauci; for photo permission, I am also thankful to Fr. Edgar Vella, curator of the Metropolitan Cathedral Museum, Mdina.

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The Greek Vampire: A Study of Cyclic Symbolism in Marriage and Death

Cited by 45 publications

References 4 publications

Introduction: blood will out

Introduction: blood will out

Conscripts And Christians: Representing Kinship And Affinity In The Carnian Alps

Staging Holiness: The Case of Hospitaller Rhodes (ca. 1309-1522)

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