The Pace of the Work and the Logic of the Harvest

Women, Labour and the Olive Harvest in a Greek Island Community

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2559623
AutoresD Theodossopoulos (0000-0001-8453-3450, autor correspondente)
Ano1999
Volume5
Fascículo4
Páginas611
Data de publicação1999-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1359-0987 • E-ISSN: 1467-9655
EditoraJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2661151
OpenAlexW2329526179
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas17

This article considers the meaning of work for women (and some men) in the olive harvest in a Greek island community. Household economic priorities and a spirit of cooperation permeate the harvesting practice in which women (and men) perform hard manual labour. Women protagonists of the olive harvest explain their commitment to this work by reference to their desire to participate in collective household undertakings. Corporate, family-oriented understandings of self-interest are well attested in the anthropological literature on Greece. I present the harvesting practice, its logic and the particular division of labour in it, as an efficient investment in household relationships

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