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The family has always played a crucial role in Greek society, extending beyond a married couple to extended relatives, and commanding a loyalty that overrode duty to other groups. Cultivation of land and running of businesses tended to be family enterprises. Daughters generally received dowries. A study of social life in the town of Vasilika, county of Voiotias, may give some background on rural life in Greece: | The family has always played a crucial role in Greek society, extending beyond a married couple to extended relatives, and commanding a loyalty that overrode duty to other groups. Cultivation of land and running of businesses tended to be family enterprises. Daughters generally received dowries. A study of social life in the town of Vasilika, county of Voiotias, may give some background on rural life in Greece: | ||
Friedl, Ernestine. ''Vasilika: A Village in Modern Greece''. New York, NY, USA: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962. (FHL book 949.51/V1 H6f) | * Friedl, Ernestine. ''Vasilika: A Village in Modern Greece''. New York, NY, USA: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962. (FHL book 949.51/V1 H6f) | ||
You may also find several additional sources about Greek social life at a public or university library. A bibliography of several interesting publications on this subject is found in the following book: | You may also find several additional sources about Greek social life at a public or university library. A bibliography of several interesting publications on this subject is found in the following book: | ||
Sanders, Irwin T. ''East European Peasantries: Social Relations: An Annotated Bibliography of Periodical Articles''. Volume 2. Boston, Massachusetts, USA: G.K. Hall, 1981 (55–62). (FHL book 940 H63s) | * Sanders, Irwin T. ''East European Peasantries: Social Relations: An Annotated Bibliography of Periodical Articles''. Volume 2. Boston, Massachusetts, USA: G.K. Hall, 1981 (55–62). (FHL book 940 H63s) | ||
==External Links== | |||
*[http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/browse?type=lcsubc&key=Greece -- Social life and customs in Greece - Online Books Page] | |||
[http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/browse?type=lcsubc&key=Greece -- Social life and customs | *[http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/seebohmhugh/structureGreektribal.pdf On the Structure of Greek Tribal Society - An Essay - By Hugh E. Seebohm 1895] | ||
http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/seebohmhugh/structureGreektribal.pdf | |||
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