if The Saint Calls You, If You Have An Open Road, Then You Don't Feel The Fire As If It Were Your Enemy, Says One Of The Participants In The Anastenaria. This Compelling Work Evokes And Contrasts Two Forms Of Firewalking And Religious Healing: First, The Anastenaria, A Northern Greek Ritual In Which People Who Are Possessed By Saint Constantine Dance Dramatically Over Red-hot Coals, And, Second, American Firewalking, One Of The More Spectacular Activities Of New Age Psychology. Loring Danforth...

greeks And Macedonians Are Presently Engaged In An Often Heated Dispute Involving Competing Claims To A Single Identity. Each Group Asserts That They, And They Alone, Have The Right To Identify Themselves As Macedonians. The Greek Government Denies The Existence Of A Macedonian Nation And Insists That All Macedonians Are Greeks, While Macedonians Vehemently Assert Their Existence As A Unique People. Here Loring Danforth Examines The Macedonian Conflict In Light Of Contemporary Theoretical Work...

At The Height Of The Greek Civil War In 1948, 38,000 Children Were Evacuated From Their Homes In The Mountains Of Northern Greece And Relocated To Orphanages And Children's Homes. This Book Analyses The Evacuation, Which Remains A Controversial Issue Within Greek Society. Part 1. Histories. Framing The Subject ; The Evacuation Of Children To Eastern Europe ; The Paidopoleis Of Queen Frederica -- Part 2. Stories. Refugee Children In Eastern Europe ; Kostas Tsimoudis ; Evropi Marinova ; Stefanos Gikas...

This compelling text and dramatic photographic essay convey the emotional power of the death rituals of a small Greek village—the funeral, the singing of laments, the distribution of food, the daily visits to the graves, and especially the rite of exhumation. These rituals help Greek villagers face the universal paradox of mourning: how can the living sustain relationships with the dead and at the same time bring them to an end, in order to continue to live meaningfully as members of a community?...