When women held the dragon's tongue
Subtitle: and other essays in historical anthropology
By: Hermann Rebel
Series: Dislocations -- v. 7; Dislocations -- v. 7.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9781845456207
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-293) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. What people without history? : a case for historical anthropology as a narrative-critical science; title: Figurations in historical anthropology : two kinds of narrative about the long-duration provenances of the Holocaust; title: Culture and power in Eric Wolf's project; title: Why not 'Old Marie', or someone very much like her? : a reassessment of the quetion about the Grimms' contributors from a social-historical perspective; title: When women held the dragon's tongue; title: Peasants against the state in the body of Anna Maria Wagner : an Austrian infanticde in 1832; title: What do the peasants want now? : realists and fundamentalists in Swiss and South German rural politics, 1650-1750; title: Reactionary modernism and the postmodern challenge to narrative ethics.