"The essays in this volume are united by their attention to the many ways in which residents of Greece's southern Argolid peninsula have attempted to shelter, feed, and advance the economic situation of their families over the last three centuries.

The essays in the volume integrate ethnographic, geographic, historical, and archaeological methodologies to yield an image of the southern Argolid as a contingent countryside whose boundaries, character, people, and external connections have been reconfigured time and again.".

"This volume, the fourth in a series of books deriving from the Argolid Exploration Project conducted by Stanford University, sets forth the material conditions of rural Greek life as mutable and negotiated in ways that complement archaeological interest in the repeated settlement fluctuations of the Greek past. It also exemplifies recent ethnographic shifts in conceiving other aspects of modern Greek life."--BOOK JACKET.