Trikeri : Mobilite et rapports d' appartenacne
Part of : Επιθεώρηση κοινωνικών ερευνών ; No.Special, 1981, pages 191-199
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191-199
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Social identity and mobility in Trikeri
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Trikeri is an isolated Pélion village with marked insularcharacteristics. At the end of the 18th century and the beginning ofthe 19th, it took an active part in the development of the Greek merchant marine and became one of the important maritime centers inthe area.Because of its maritime activities, economic and social structuresare based upon the men's departure and the women's permanentpresence in the village community. The institutions of endogamy, ofuxorilocality and of property transmission as well as women’s controlover the household economy and the matrimonial alliances express thisstate of separation between the sexes. Living in a spatial and ternporal discontinuity along with the post-marital residence pattern, themen are mobile also within their own society. Furthermore, villagemembership rests upon relations through women who are responsible for the group’s cohesion.Most of these structures have been maintained up to now.Economic activities still depend on the sea but the social hierarchyhas been altered. The wealthy class which emerged in the times ofeconomic development has been disaggregated. Today, the men'smassive enrollment in the merchant marine results in social uniformityTrikeri remains, as it did in the past, a society whose monetaryeconomy, dependent on a wider market, guarantees a high standardof living to the villagers. The presence of money allows the inhabitants to cope with the pressures of modern times. Numerous oh jects, signs of modernity, are now being integrated into yesterday'scodes of prestige symbols. Nevertheless, the impact of the imagesfrom the outside world conveyed by the mass-media is increasing.Sailors are no longer ideal husbands in the eyes of the young women, a fact which generates a tendency towards exogamy. At the same time, a few families have moved to Volos in order to help their sonsto go through technical schools and a road is being built which leadsto the other Pelion villages breaking Trikeri's isolation. Thesechanges make Trikeri more and more open to the external world andlead to a social destabilization.
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