Soziale Räume und Beziehungen von Frauen und Männern im Dorf : eine historische Ethnographie des Landgerichtes Laudegg im Westen Tirols in der Frühen Neuzeit / eingereicht von: Maria Elisabeth Heidegger

• VerfasserIn: Heidegger, Maria 1969-
• Place / Publishing House: 1998
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Language: German
• Physical Description: IV, 471 S.; Ill., Kt.

eng: The study deals with historical social domains of women and men in the judicial district 'Laudegg' in Tyrol in early modern times. The representation stresses conflicts and human relations more than long-term trends of development. The first part discusses the concepts of the study as well as methodical perspectives. A macro-social approach to the field of examination shows, how social and economic relations worked within the networks of the villagers, families, kinship, households, and neighborhoods. The second part of the study concentrates on 15 years at the end of the 16th century. Basis of this micro history are the judicial records of the years 1581 to 1595. Men and women appealed to the court to complain insults, to find agreements or to make contracts. These records allow insights in the everyday practice of making and confirming social relations, interactions, and networks in a historical region of small peasant agriculture and partible inheritance. The study is situated on the crossing of the disciplines cultural anthropology and social history. Starting point was a main interest in gender history. Extensive study of judicial records in the 'Tiroler Landesarchiv' opened up a further approach: the relations between the villagers and their conflicts and ordinary experiences moved into the center of interest. Therefore the concept of 'social drama' (Victor Turner) proved to be a helpful tool for interpretation. The interactions of men and women within the field of examination were structured by social networks and relations of solidarity as well as by social control and information. The networks of neighborhood and relationship formed their rooms to act. Within these networks there existed chains of relations and some kind of nodal points. The social dramas of the villagers, delivered by judicial records, reveal these crucial points.