2002

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1970

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1962

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Frederick Osmond Gearing

Research

Current interests fall into several different areas, including social anthropology, ethnographic theory and method, and the anthropology of education. Regional focus has been North American Indians and contemporary village Greece.

Research includes: the study of "action research" methods and adaptations in an enclaved social system at the Fox Indian community in Iowa; eighteenth century Cherokee political structure; and Greek rural village social structue at Kardamili, Messinias.

From the Edge of Greek Space: ExoMani.

Frederick O. Gearing
Mariekaty Athanasea Georgota

STACHI Publication, 2002.
5 Mesolongiou str., Athens 10681
334 pp. ISBN 960-8032-79-2.
email:  proodoss@otenet.gr
 

ExoMani: Fifty villages, nestled here and there in the mountains and by the sea, along most of the western Mani peninsula, in the southernmost Peloponniso. There is 3000 years of history here as well, much of it volatile.
These pages seek out and describe footprints of history in this place; traces found on the ground, including ruins of forts and monasteries, yes, and networks of stone pathways among the villages, but including as well more mundane things, such as terraces up the mountainsides for olive trees, and the trees on them, and old grinding stones, and mounds of sherds, mere rubble, and more. These material traces were left on the ground of ExoMani, some during the days of Agamemnon, others during the times of Spartan generals, and then the times of pirate savagings, and then the heroic times of Kolokotroni, and the days of others still later, traces left mainly by uncounted men and women, often nameless. Footprints of history, the authors say, are footprints of honor, of Greek honor (of "timi"), and most are footprints of the special forms this honor takes among common villagers in the course of everyday life on village streets, here in ExoMani and perhaps in most of village Greece. Commonplace honor - little noted, elusive, and puzzling still - has played out over some 3000 years, with changes along the way, and it plays out similarly today.

Selected Publications

• 2002 From the Edge of Greek Space: ExoMarri. with Mariekaty Georgota. Stachi Publications, Athens, Greece.
  
• 1975 "Structures of Censorship, Usually Inadvertent: Studies in a Cultural Theory of Education." with B.A. Tindell, A. Smith and T. Carroll. Council on Anthropology and Education Quarterly. 6:2, 1-22.
  
• 1970 The Face of the Fox. Aldine Publishing Co, Chicago.
  
• 1967 Review: Honour and Shame, The Values of Mediterranean Society by J.G. Peristiany. American Anthropologist, 69:5.
  
• 1964 "Notes on the Comparitive Study of Non-western Political Systems." Proceedings, VI International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, vol. 11, 321-337.
  
• 1962 Priests and Warriors: Structures for Cherokee Politics in the Eighteenth Century; Memoir 93, American Anthropological Association 64:5, Part 2.
  
• 1960 Documentary History of the Fox Project 1948-49; A Program in Action Anthropology, Directed by Sol Tax. Ed. F. Gearing, R. Neeting and L. Peattie. Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago.
  
• 1958 "The Structural Poses of 18th Century Cherokee Villages." American Anthropologist 60:6, 1148-57.
  
• 1957

Professional Honors

1994 George and Louise Spindler Award. Council on Anthropology and Educatiom, American Anthropological Association.