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• Βερέμης, Θάνος Μ.

Ioannis Makriyannis, a self-taught author of his Memoirs and a warlord during the Greek War of Independence, became an icon of interwar intellectuals such as George Seferis and George Theotokas. In post-war Greece he was regarded as representative of the unadulterated values of traditional society. This paper is about the use of social anthropology in the study of Modern Greek history. Ioannis Makriyannis has been re-evaluated through the perspective of John Campbell’s seminal anthropological work on the Sarakatsan herdsmen. The values and prototypes of this pre-modern community may serve to interpret the exploits of Makriyannis. Furthermore, the meaning of his language can be better understood through the use of anthropological symbolism.

• History and Archaeology

• Ιστορία
• Anthropology and history

856:https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/historicalReview/article/view/4058, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/hr.277

• http://historicalreview.org/index.php/historicalReview/article/view/277