Patricia Riak

Publications

• Popular Culture and the South Pacific.

  Patricia Riak

  currently unassigned with incomplete paper draft. 06/2013;

• Primitivism and the case of Paul Gauguin and Tahiti

  Patricia Riak

  currently unassigned with paper draft incomplete. 06/2013;

• "Religious Healing and Health on a Greek Island: Saint Worship and Dance as Offering to a Saint."

  Patricia Riak

  Greek Research in Australia. Proceedings of the 9th Biennial International Conference of Greek Studies, 2011, Flinders University, Department of Languages – Modern Greek; 01/2013

• The First Global's Workbook

  Patricia Riak

  1st 12/2012; Kendal Hunt.

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• Kakavia the Greek fish soup

  Patricia Riak

  12/2012;

• Traditional wedding on Rhodes

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  11/2012;

• The Dance of Isaiah and sacramental performance.

  Patricia Riak

  currently unassigned with paper draft complete. 08/2012;

• World Regions and Cultures: A Reader.

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  1 st edited by Patricia Riak, 06/2012; University Readers Publishers.

• Greek Self

  Patricia Riak

  Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand). 01/2011;

  Collapsing Representation: Crisis in History, Literature and Thinking.

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• Direct Observation: Growing up and the First Glimpses of East and West during Christmas

  Patricia Riak

  Greek Research in Australia. Proceedings of the 8th Biennial International Conference of Greek Studies, 2009, Flinders University, Department of Languages – Modern Greek; 01/2011

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• Celebrations during a Traditional Wedding on the island of Rhodes.

  Patricia Riak

  Dance Chronicle (Oxford, UK: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group). 01/2011; 34(3):388-421.

  Special Issue: Preserving Dance in the Diasporas

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• Religious Recollections of Family in the Ritual World on Rhodes

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  Journal of Eastern Christian Studies (Leuven, Belgium: Peeters Publishers). 01/2010; 62:227-270.

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• Cross Cultural Children in Melbourne: Thoughts of Getting Married in Greek- and Ukrainian-Australian Families

  Patricia Riak

  Greek Research in Australia. Proceedings of the 7th Biennial International Conference of Greek Studies, 2007, Flinders University, Department of Languages – Modern Greek; 01/2009

  This paper is an ethnographic portrayal of Greek and Ukrainian cross-cultural children in Melbourne at an age where marriage is a topic of discussion between parents and children, when ethnic traditions are discussed, comparing the views and expectations of these two ethnic cultures. Parents mention... [more] This paper is an ethnographic portrayal of Greek and Ukrainian cross-cultural children in Melbourne at an age where marriage is a topic of discussion between parents and children, when ethnic traditions are discussed, comparing the views and expectations of these two ethnic cultures. Parents mention their pre-migration experiences of marriage, also encompassing their parents’ life stories. Marriage, as a rite of passage, is explained through the theory of Arnold van Gennep.

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• Elitism in Ideological Construction. White Australia Coloring the Southern European‘Black Fella'

  Patricia Riak

  Anistriton Journal of History, Archaeology and Art History (Greek e-journal http://www.anistor.gr/index.html). 01/2008; 11:1-21.

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• A Cultural Interpretation of Greek Dance

  Patricia Riak

  Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora ( New York, New York: Pella Publishing). 01/2007; 33 (1&2):39-59.

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• The Interplay of Spirit in Greek Island Dance

  Patricia Riak

  History and Anthropology (Oxford, UK: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group). 01/2007; 18 (2):197-226.

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• Identity and Relations within Society: The Greek Experience in Australia

  Patricia Riak

  Greek Research in Australia. Proceedings of the 6th Biennial International Conference of Greek Studies, 2005, Flinders University, South Australia; 01/2007

  Th is paper is both introduction to and review of sociological insights that have contributed to understanding social dynamics that give defi nition to the social modelling of the Greek family in Australia. Th e paper concentrates on fi rst generatio Greek-born migrants and their children. It will e... [more] Th is paper is both introduction to and review of sociological insights that have contributed to understanding social dynamics that give defi nition to the social modelling of the Greek family in Australia. Th e paper concentrates on fi rst generatio Greek-born migrants and their children. It will explain the use of network analysis that has been researched for the Greek community in Australia. Network analysis will then be compared to systems theory. The comparison favours the relevance of network analysis in making social sense of migrant family structure in Australia.

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• The Sousta in the Aegean

  Patricia Riak

  Greek Research in Australia. Proceedings of the 5th Biennial International Conference of Greek Studies, 2003, Flinders University, Department of Languages – Modern Greek; 01/2005

  The paper is an exploration of a Greek island dance. In the Aegean, the σούστα has been a dance of Greek island peoples, especially for those of the southern Aegean: the Dodecanese islands and Crete. This paper discusses the possible origins of the σούστα and locates it in the types of dances of the... [more] The paper is an exploration of a Greek island dance. In the Aegean, the σούστα has been a dance of Greek island peoples, especially for those of the southern Aegean: the Dodecanese islands and Crete. This paper discusses the possible origins of the σούστα and locates it in the types of dances of the wider Aegean region. The paper is also an ethnographic exploration, the result of ethnographic fieldwork on a Dodecanesian island, Rhodes, constructing a picture of a local σούστα dance in a southern village of the island. The importance of the dance, it seems, was that it was a dance of love and an essential part of courtship which expressed the honour of love in the wedding ritual. This local variant of σούστα is not performed any more in the village. In this paper I will discuss how dance performances are involved in the definition of gender roles and in the construction of honourable love and courtship.

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• Concealing and Revealing: The sousta as honorable dance on the island of Rhodes.

  Patricia Riak

  Degree: PhD Dissertation, Department of Sociology Politics and Anthropology, La Trobe University. 01/2004;

• The Performative Context: Song-Dance on Rhodes Island

  Patricia Riak

  Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand) (Blackheath, NSW: Brandl and Schlesinger). 01/2003; 11:212-227.

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