Evy Johanne Håland

Competing Ideologies in Greek Culture, Ancient and Modern

By: Evy Johanne Håland

From £33.99

By using both modern and ancient sources, this volume explores the relationship between official religion and popular belief in Greece, as illustrated by the relations between competing ideologies, and the relationship between ideology and mentality.

Greek Festivals, Modern and Ancient

A Comparison of Female and Male Values Volume 1

By: Evy Johanne Håland

£63.99

Håland’s two-volume book represents a cross-period product of fieldwork conducted in contemporary Greece in combination with ancient sources. It investigates the importance of cults connected with the Greek female sphere and its relation to the official male-dominated ideology.

Greek Festivals, Modern and Ancient

A Comparison of Female and Male Values Volume 2

By: Evy Johanne Håland

£68.99

Håland’s two-volume book represents a cross-period product of fieldwork conducted in contemporary Greece in combination with ancient sources. It investigates the importance of cults connected with the Greek female sphere and its relation to the official male-dominated ideology.

Rituals of Death and Dying in Modern and Ancient Greece

Writing History from a Female Perspective

By: Evy Johanne Håland

£73.99

This study examines women’s crucial role in the cult of the dead in ancient and modern Greece. It combines ethnography with historical sources to offer a female perspective on death rituals, challenging a history written almost exclusively by men.

Women, Pilgrimage, and Rituals of Healing in Modern and Ancient Greece

A Comparison

By: Evy Johanne Håland

From £43.99

How can we understand ancient Greek healing rituals when the men who recorded them could not know what occurred? This book compares ancient sources with modern rituals still performed by women, bringing both worlds into mutual illumination and offering new interpretations.

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