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Author Rebel, Hermann, 1943-

Title When women held the dragon's tongue [electronic resource] : and other essays in historical anthropology / Hermann Rebel.

Imprint New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.

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Description xix, 309 p.
Series Dislocations ; v. 7
Dislocations ; v. 7.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-293) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Ethnohistory.
Philosophical anthropology.
Peasants.
Fairy tales.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9781845456207 (hardback : alk. paper)
1845456203 (hardback : alk. paper)

 
    
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