| Titre | Banditisme social et imaginaire pastoral en Grèce (XIXe — début XXe siècle) | |
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| Auteur | Stathis Damianakos | |
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Revue | Etudes rurales |
| Numéro | no 97-98, 1985 L'ethnographie / Grèce | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Les grecs et l'imaginaire |
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| Page | 219-240 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Social Banditry and the Pastoral Imagination in Greece (from the 19th to the Early 20th Century).
Social banditry continued the long tradition, from the Ottoman period, of the clephtes and armatoles. Like these, its ambition was to obtain hegemony but over local areas and not over the whole of continental Greece. From the founding of the Greek state to the early 20th century, social banditry came to embody two conflicts. In the one between the logic of the centralizing state and the ancient order of communal autonomy, the bandit leader became the legitimate defender of the latter owing to the solidity of his local base, his hoplitic power and his renown, which came from his role in irredent movements till after the First World War and from his image as a renderer of justice among the masses of oppressed peasants. The second conflict set transhumant agro-pastoral societies — the best recruiting grounds for banditry and also the best host community — at odds with large landowners or with public authorities about access to pastures and national land reserves. The agro-pastoral world was linked to banditry by several functional complementarities and structural homologies that could be seen in terms of ways of life, the relationship to space, the cultural as well as moral practices, and the principles of internal organization. The pastoral imaginary realm found expression through several saracatsan songs about the fore- mentioned conflicts as well as through the social values that shepherds and bandits shared. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rural_0014-2182_1985_num_97_1_3071 |
