Stathis Damianakos
Stathis Damianakos (; 1939–2003) is considered one of the most prominent researchers in the fields of
agriculture, ethnological and cultural
sociology in
Greece. Among his most known works are the "Sociology of
Rebetiko" and "Paradosi antarsias kai laikos politismos" (Tradition of mutiny and popular culture). Damianakos was a
Marxist sociologist and was professor at the
University Paris X. In 2002 he was invited as a guest professor in the
University of Crete in
Rethymnon. Little before he was found dead in his apartment in
Paris, he had expressed his wish to continue teaching in
Crete. In May 2005 a conference to his memory was held in
Athens.
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