The Last Word: Women, Death, And Divination In Inner Mani,New Childress 2006) Platinum Book Award

2006) Platinum Book Award

And Practical Skills To Execute The Ideas And To Persuade Other People Of Their Value

The Book Explores The Ongoing Effects Of Colonization And Emphasizes Native American Tribes As Governments Rather Than Ethnic Minorities

The Features That Made Them Unique

Getting The Point

The Last Word: Women, Death, And Divination In Inner Mani,New Childress 2006) Platinum Book AwardBased On Years Of Fieldwork In Both Rural And Urban Greece, The Last Word Explores Women'S Cultural Resistance As They Weave Together Diverse Social Practices: Improvised Antiphonic Laments, Divinatory Dreaming, The Care And Tending Of Olive Trees And The Dead, And The Inscription Of Emotions And The Senses On A Landscape Of Persons, Things, And Places. These Practices Compose The Empowering Poetics Of The Cultural Periphery. C. Nadia Seremetakis