When Women Held the Dragon's Tongue : : and Other Essays in Historical Anthropology /

When Women Held the Dragon's Tongue : : and Other Essays in Historical Anthropology / / Hermann Rebel.

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“Peasants tell tales,” one prominent cultural historian tells us (Robert Darnton). Scholars must then determine and analyze what it is they are saying and whether or not to incorporate such tellings into their histories and ethnographies. Challenging the dominant culturalist approach associated with...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Rebel, Hermann,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Dislocations ; 7
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Physical Description:1 online resource (330 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. What People Without History? A Case for Historical Anthropology as a Narrative-Critical Science
  • Part I Myths
  • 1. Figurations in Historical Anthropology: Two Kinds of Narrative about the Long-Duration Provenances of the Holocaust
  • 2. Culture and Power in Eric Wolf’s Project
  • Part II Fairy Tales
  • 3. Why Not ‘Old Marie’ . . . or Someone Very Much Like Her? A Reassessment of the Question about the Grimms’ Contributors from a Social-Historical Perspective
  • 4. When Women Held the Dragon’s Tongue
  • Part III Histories
  • 5. Peasants Against the State in the Body of Anna Maria Wagner: An Austrian Infanticide in 1832
  • 6. What Do the Peasants Want Now? Realists and Fundamentalists in Swiss and South German Rural Politics, 1650–1750
  • Part IV Anthropologies
  • 7. Reactionary Modernism and the Postmodern Challenge to Narrative Ethics
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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