Odds & Ends: December 15, 2023 | The Art of Manliness

The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village. During the 1960s, anthropologist Michael Herzfeld lived among the people inhabiting a small, mountainous village on the island of Crete, observing their culture of masculinity. The resulting book has insights on why men are drawn to meat, risk, competition, and improvisation and why […]