1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910708056603321

Autore

Ulrich E. O (Edward Oscar), <1857-1944, >

Titolo

The lead, zinc, and fluorspar deposits of western Kentucky / / by E.O. Ulrich and W.S. Tangier Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington : , : Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, , 1905

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (218 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Professional paper ; ; no. 36

Series A--Economic geology ; ; 46

Series B--Descriptive geology ; ; 58

Series C--Systemic geology and paleontoloyg ; ; 71

Soggetti

Geology - Kentucky

Mines and mineral resources - Kentucky

Fluorspar - Kentucky

Lead - Kentucky

Zinc - Kentucky

Fluorspar

Geology

Lead mines and mining

Zinc ores

Kentucky

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed September 17, 2014).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791243003321

Autore

Rebel Hermann <1943->

Titolo

When women held the dragon's tongue [[electronic resource] ] : and other essays in historical anthropology / / Hermann Rebel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2010

ISBN

1-282-62712-0

9786612627125

1-84545-798-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (330 p.)

Collana

Dislocations ; ; v. 7

Disciplina

301.01

909/.04

Soggetti

Ethnohistory

Philosophical anthropology

Peasants

Fairy tales

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-293) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction. What people without history? : a case for historical anthropology as a narrative-critical science -- Figurations in historical anthropology : two kinds of narrative about the long-duration provenances of the Holocaust -- Culture and power in Eric Wolf's project -- Why not 'Old Marie', or someone very much like her? : a reassessment of the quetion about the Grimms' contributors from a social-historical perspective -- When women held the dragon's tongue -- Peasants against the state in the body of Anna Maria Wagner : an Austrian infanticde in 1832 -- What do the peasants want now? : realists and fundamentalists in Swiss and South German rural politics, 1650-1750 -- Reactionary modernism and the postmodern challenge to narrative ethics.

Sommario/riassunto

"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