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Book A Study of the Greeks in Chicago

Download or read book A Study of the Greeks in Chicago written by Grace Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Greeks in Chicago

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  • Author : Ph.D., Michael George Davros
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2009-02-16
  • ISBN : 1439621357
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book Greeks in Chicago written by Ph.D., Michael George Davros and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02-16 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greeks arrived in America with the expectation that freedom would permit their families to thrive and be successful. With hard work, belief in the Orthodox faith, and commitment to education, Greeks ascended in Chicago, and America, to positions of responsibility and success. Today Greek Americans are among the wealthiest and most successful of immigrant groups. Greeks recognized a historical imperative that they meet the challenges and aspirations of a classical Hellenic heritage. Greeks in Chicago celebrates the rich history of the Greek community through copious pictorial documentation.

Book Education and Greek Immigrants in Chicago  1892 1973

Download or read book Education and Greek Immigrants in Chicago 1892 1973 written by Andrew Thomas Kopan and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Education and Greek Immigrants in Chicago  1892 1973

Download or read book Education and Greek Immigrants in Chicago 1892 1973 written by Andrew T. Kopan and published by Garland Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book First and Second Generation Greeks in Chicago

Download or read book First and Second Generation Greeks in Chicago written by George A. Kourvetaris and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book First and Second Generation Greeks in Chicago  an Inquiry Into Their Stratification and Mobility Patterns

Download or read book First and Second Generation Greeks in Chicago an Inquiry Into Their Stratification and Mobility Patterns written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social research monograph on acculturation and social mobility of Greek immigrants and their children in the USA, based on a study conducted in the Chicago urban area - covers social stratification within the Greek ethnic group, inter-generational social integration and labour mobility, etc. Bibliography pp. 108 to 111, maps and statistical tables.

Book A Study of the Voluntary Association of the Greek Immigrants of Chicago from 1890 to 1948 with Special Emphasis of World War II and Post War Period

Download or read book A Study of the Voluntary Association of the Greek Immigrants of Chicago from 1890 to 1948 with Special Emphasis of World War II and Post War Period written by Constantine Anthony Yeracaris and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cuisine of Sacrifice Among the Greeks

Download or read book The Cuisine of Sacrifice Among the Greeks written by Marcel Detienne and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Greeks, the sharing of cooked meats was the fundamental communal act, so that to become vegetarian was a way of refusing society. It follows that the roasting or cooking of meat was a political act, as the division of portions asserted a social order. And the only proper manner of preparing meat for consumption, according to the Greeks, was blood sacrifice. The fundamental myth is that of Prometheus, who introduced sacrifice and, in the process, both joined us to and separated us from the gods—and ambiguous relation that recurs in marriage and in the growing of grain. Thus we can understand why the ascetic man refuses both women and meat, and why Greek women celebrated the festival of grain-giving Demeter with instruments of butchery. The ambiguity coded in the consumption of meat generated a mythology of the "other"—werewolves, Scythians, Ethiopians, and other "monsters." The study of the sacrificial consumption of meat thus leads into exotic territory and to unexpected findings. In The Cuisine of Sacrifice, the contributors—all scholars affiliated with the Center for Comparative Studies of Ancient Societies in Paris—apply methods from structural anthropology, comparative religion, and philology to a diversity of topics: the relation of political power to sacrificial practice; the Promethean myth as the foundation story of sacrificial practice; representations of sacrifice found on Greek vases; the technique and anatomy of sacrifice; the interaction of image, language, and ritual; the position of women in sacrificial custom and the female ritual of the Thesmophoria; the mythical status of wolves in Greece and their relation to the sacrifice of domesticated animals; the role and significance of food-related ritual in Homer and Hesiod; ancient Greek perceptions of Scythian sacrificial rites; and remnants of sacrificial ritual in modern Greek practices.

Book Fear of Diversity

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  • Author : Arlene W. Saxonhouse
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 1995-05
  • ISBN : 9780226735542
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Fear of Diversity written by Arlene W. Saxonhouse and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging and provocative book locates the origin of political science in the everyday world of ancient Greek life, thought, and culture. Arlene Saxonhouse contends that the Greeks, confronted by the puzzling diversity of the physical world, sought an unseen and unifying force that would constrain and explain it. This drive toward unity did more than place the mind over the senses: it led the Greeks to play down the very real differences - in particular the female, the family, and sexuality - in both their political and personal lives. While the dramatists and Plato captured the tragic consequences of trying to do so, it was not until Aristotle and his Politics did the Greek world - and its heirs - have a true science of politics, one capable of embracing diversity and accommodating conflict. Much of the book's force derives from Saxonhouse's masterful interweaving of Greek philosophy and drama, her juxtaposition of the thought of the pre-Socratics, Plato, and other philosophers to the cultural life revealed by such dramatists as Aristophanes and Aeschylus. Her approach opens up fresh understandings of such issues as the Greeks' fear of the feminine and their attempts to ignore the demands that gender, reproduction, and the family inevitably make on the individual and the family. The Fear of Diversity represents an important contribution to political philosophy, classics, and gender studies.

Book A Study of First and Second Generation Greek Out marriages in Chicago

Download or read book A Study of First and Second Generation Greek Out marriages in Chicago written by Evangeline Mistaras and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Studies on Greek Americans

Download or read book Studies on Greek Americans written by George A. Kourvetaris and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader combines theory and research in the study of Greek-American ethnicity and identity. It includes chapters on the histories of early and late immigrants, first- and second-generation Greeks in Chicago, Greek Orthodox and Greek American identity, and Greek-American entrepreneurs. It also discusses continuity and change in the Greek American experience and examines the past, present and future of Greek American ethnicity within the larger framework of multiculturalism.

Book GROWING UP GREEK IN CHICAGO

Download or read book GROWING UP GREEK IN CHICAGO written by Alexander Rassogianis and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this nostalgic memoir, American author Alexander Rassogianis celebrates his Greek ethnicity and the joy of having two cultures from which to draw enrichment. The book is a collection of vignettes from Alexander’s childhood that will entertain and amuse. From creating a nickname, Al, in elementary school (what could be more American than that?), ditching Greek school to play Ping-Pong at Columbus Park, and finding his mother’s Greek pastry after she spent hours trying to hide it, Alexander shares what it was like Growing Up Greek in Chicago.

Book The Greeks In Chicago

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  • Author : Wttw
  • Publisher : Northwestern University Press
  • Release : 2004-05-28
  • ISBN : 9780810122666
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Greeks In Chicago written by Wttw and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Savage Energies

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  • Author : Walter Burkert
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2001-04
  • ISBN : 9780226080857
  • Pages : 140 pages

Download or read book Savage Energies written by Walter Burkert and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We often think of classical Greek society as a model of rationality and order. Yet as Walter Burkert demonstrates in these influential essays on the history of Greek religion, there were archaic, savage forces surging beneath the outwardly calm face of classical Greece, whose potentially violent and destructive energies, Burkert argues, were harnessed to constructive ends through the interlinked uses of myth and ritual. For example, in a much-cited essay on the Athenian religious festival of the Arrephoria, Burkert uncovers deep connections between this strange nocturnal ritual, in which two virgin girls carried sacred offerings into a cave and later returned with something given to them there, and tribal puberty initiations by linking the festival with the myth of the daughters of Kekrops. Other chapters explore the origins of tragedy in blood sacrifice; the role of myth in the ritual of the new fire on Lemnos; the ties between violence, the Athenian courts, and the annual purification of the divine image; and how failed political propaganda entered the realm of myth at the time of the Persian Wars.

Book Greek Americans

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  • Author : Peter C. Moskos
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-07-05
  • ISBN : 1351516701
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Greek Americans written by Peter C. Moskos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an engrossing account of Greek Americans their history, strengths, conflicts, aspirations, and contributions. Blending sociological insight with historical detail, Peter C. and Charles C. Moskos trace the Greek-American experience from the wave of mass immigration in the early 1900s to today. This is the story of immigrants, most of whom worked hard to secure middle-class status. It is also the story of their children and grandchildren, many of whom maintain an attachment to Greek ethnic identity even as they have become one of America's most successful ethnic groups.As the authors rightly note, the true measure of Greek-Americans is the immigrants themselves who came to America without knowing the language and without education. They raised solid families in the new country and shouldered responsibilities for those in the old. They laid the basis for an enduring Greek-American community.Included in this completely revised edition is an introduction by Michael Dukakis and chapters relating to the early struggles of Greeks in America, the Greek Orthodox Church, success in America, and the survival and expansion of Greek identity despite intermarriage. This work will be of value to scholars of ethnic studies, those interested in Greek culture and communities, and sociologists and historians.

Book Reading Greek America

Download or read book Reading Greek America written by Spyros D. Orfanos and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: