When Women Held the Dragon's Tongue

Hermann Rebel was born in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, and educated at the University of Toronto and at UC Berkeley. He has taught at York University in Toronto, the University of Iowa, and the University of Arizona and has published Peasant Classes (Princeton, 1983) as well as articles on Austrian and German agrarian and cultural history.

• List of TablesPrefaceAcknowledgementsChapter 1. What People without History? A Case for Historical Anthropology as a Narrative-Critical SciencePART I: MYTHSChapter 2. Figurations in Historical Anthropology: Two Kinds of Narrative about the Long Duration Provenances of the HolocaustChapter 3. Culture and Power in Eric Wolf’s ProjectPART II: FAIRY TALESChapter 4. Why Not “Old Marie” . . . or Someone Very Much Like Her? A Reassessment of the Question about the Grimms’ ContributorsChapter 5. When Women Held the Dragon’s TonguePART III: HISTORIESChapter 6. Peasants Against the State in the Body of Anna Maria Wagner: An Austrian Infanticide in 1832Chapter 7. What do the Peasants Want Now? Realists and Fundamentalists in Swiss and South German Rural Politics, 1650-1750PART IV: ANTHROPOLOGIESChapter 8. Reactionary Modernism and the Postmodern Challenge to Narrative EthicsBibliographyIndex

“This is a provocative, demanding, and sometimes annoying book that is nevertheless very much worth the effort it takes to read it…Hermann Rebel puts his finger on difficult and unresolved issues in this challenging book.”  ·  JRAI