TY - BOOK ID - 135119993 TI - When women held the dragon's tongue : and other essays in historical anthropology PY - 2010 SN - 1282627120 9786612627125 1845457986 0857458353 PB - New York : Berghahn Books, DB - UniCat KW - Ethnohistory. KW - Philosophical anthropology. KW - Peasants. KW - Fairy tales. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135119993 AB - "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 associated with Clifford Geertz and Marshall Sahlins among others, this book presents a critical rethinking of the philosophical anthropologies found in specific histories and ethnographies and thereby bridges the current gap between approaches to studies of peasant society and popular culture. In challenging t ER -