When Women Held the Dragon's Tongue : and Other Essays in Historical Anthropology.
"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 assoc...
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New York :
Berghahn Books, Inc.,
2010.
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| Series: | Dislocations ;
v. 7. |
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Table of Contents:
- When Women Held the Dragon's Tongue; Table of Contents; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Figurations in Historical Anthropology; Chapter 2: Culture and Power in Eric Wolf's Project; Chapter 3: Why Not 'Old Marie' ... or Someone Very Much Like Her?; Chapter 4: When Women Held the Dragon's Tongue; Chapter 5: Peasants Against the State in the Body of Anna Maria Wagner; Chapter 6: What Do the Peasants Want Now?; Chapter 7: Reactionary Modernism and the Postmodern Challenge to Narrative Ethics; Bibliography; Index.