When women held the dragon's tongue : and other essays in historical anthropology / Hermann Rebel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rebel, Hermann, 1943-

Series:

Dislocations ; v. 7.

Dislocations ; v. 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnohistory.

Philosophical anthropology.

Peasants.

Fairy tales.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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 Clifford Geertz and Marshall Sahlins among others, this book presents a critical rethinking of the philosophical anthropologies found in specific histories and ethnographies and thereby bridges the current gap between approaches to studies of peasant society and popular culture. In challenging t

Contents:

Introduction. What people without history? : a case for historical anthropology as a narrative-critical science

Figurations in historical anthropology : two kinds of narrative about the long-duration provenances of the Holocaust

Culture and power in Eric Wolf's project

Why not 'Old Marie', or someone very much like her? : a reassessment of the quetion about the Grimms' contributors from a social-historical perspective

When women held the dragon's tongue

Peasants against the state in the body of Anna Maria Wagner : an Austrian infanticde in 1832

What do the peasants want now? : realists and fundamentalists in Swiss and South German rural politics, 1650-1750

Reactionary modernism and the postmodern challenge to narrative ethics.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-293) and index.

ISBN:

1-80758-175-6

0-85745-835-3

1-282-62712-0

9786612627125

1-84545-798-6

OCLC:

645101915