The village in court : arson, infanticide, and poaching in the court records of Upper Bavaria, 1848-1910 /
The rural village in nineteenth-century Europe was caught in conflict between its traditional local culture and its new integration into the grasp of state institutions and modern social structures. Local practices were turned into crimes; the social meaning of crime within the village culture was r...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1994.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The breakup of the village. The peasant as seen by the middle class. The literature on rural conditions. Crime as a medium of historical anthropology. Landscape with villages
- pt. 1. Peasant Society and the Individual. 1. Fire in the village. 2. The mad-doctor's gaze
- pt. II. The Status of Women and the Place of Children. 3. The Bridal Wagon. 4. Silent births
- pt. III. The Disputed Boundaries of the Village. 5. Poaching: Economics, culture, and sexuality. 6. Domination in jeopardy. Conclusion: On the threshold between two worlds.