When Women Held the Dragon's Tongue

Challenges the dominant culturalist approach associated with Clifford Geertz and Marshall Sahlins


Bridges the current gap between approaches to studies of peasant society and popular culture


Presents a critical rethinking of the philosophical anthropologies found in specific histories and ethnographies

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Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. What People without History? A Case for Historical Anthropology as a Narrative-Critical Science
PART I: MYTHS
Chapter 2. Figurations in Historical Anthropology: Two Kinds of Narrative about the Long Duration Provenances of the Holocaust
Chapter 3. Culture and Power in Eric Wolf's Project
PART II: FAIRY TALES
Chapter 4. Why Not "Old Marie" . . . or Someone Very Much Like Her? A Reassessment of the Question about the Grimms' Contributors
Chapter 5. When Women Held the Dragon's Tongue
PART III: HISTORIES
Chapter 6. Peasants Against the State in the Body of Anna Maria Wagner: An Austrian Infanticide in 1832
Chapter 7. What do the Peasants Want Now? Realists and Fundamentalists in Swiss and South German Rural Politics, 1650-1750
PART IV: ANTHROPOLOGIES
Chapter 8. Reactionary Modernism and the Postmodern Challenge to Narrative Ethics
Bibliography
Index