The Belianika katouna of the Koronaians at the site of Sylaka in Kythera

Αυτή η μελέτη εξετάζει λεπτομερώς την οργάνωση του χώρου μιας κατούνας σε
οικισμό στα Σύλακα Κυθήρων, σε περιοχή του Ποταμού, που ανήκε
στον Μπελιάνη, της οικογένειας Κορωναίων. Βασίζεται κυρίως
στην επιτόπια έρευνα που διεξήχθη στα Κύθηρα το καλοκαίρι του 2000.

Του συγγραφέα Λευτέρη Αλεξάκη. Ανάτυπο από τα πρακτικά του η Διεθνούς Πανιονίου Συνεδρίου.

• Οικονομία και οργάνωση του χώρου
• Χώρος, οικιακή ομάδα και οργάνωση της συγγένειας
• Η προέλευση του συστήματος της κατούνας στα Κύθηρα
• Συνέντευξη με τον Μιχάλη Πρινέα

Βιογραφικό Λευτέρη Αλεξάκη

Lefteris Alexakis comes from Laconia. He studied History and Archaeology with an IKY scholarship at the University of Athens (1962-1967) and Ethnology and Social Anthropology at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (1968-1970). He received his PhD with honours from the University of Ioannina in 1980. Since 1974 he has been a permanent researcher and since June 1996 he has been research director at the Centre for the Study of Greek Folklore of the Academy of Athens. He is mainly concerned with the Greek kinship system and the Ethnology and Ethnohistory of the Balkan peoples. He has published many studies and has written the scripts of two ethnographic documentaries, which were broadcast by ERT. He is a member of several scientific societies and served as president of the Hellenic Society of Ethnology from 1992 to 1996 and from 1998 to 2000. He has taught as a visiting professor at the Department of History and Ethnology of the Democritus University of Thrace (1996-1997). He has also taught on assignment from the Department of “Introduction to Social Anthropology” to postgraduate students of Folklore at the University of Athens (1999-2000).