7. Reactionary Modernism and the Postmodern Challenge to Narrative Ethics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Tables ix
4. Preface xi
5. Acknowledgments xix
6. Introduction. What People Without History? A Case for Historical Anthropology as a Narrative-Critical Science 1
7. Part I Myths
8. 1. Figurations in Historical Anthropology: Two Kinds of Narrative about the Long-Duration Provenances of the Holocaust 75
9. 2. Culture and Power in Eric Wolf’s Project 93
10. Part II Fairy Tales
11. 3. Why Not ‘Old Marie’ . . . or Someone Very Much Like Her? A Reassessment of the Question about the Grimms’ Contributors from a Social-Historical Perspective 99
12. 4. When Women Held the Dragon’s Tongue 131
13. Part III Histories
14. 5. Peasants Against the State in the Body of Anna Maria Wagner: An Austrian Infanticide in 1832 181
15. 6. What Do the Peasants Want Now? Realists and Fundamentalists in Swiss and South German Rural Politics, 1650–1750 196
16. Part IV Anthropologies
17. 7. Reactionary Modernism and the Postmodern Challenge to Narrative Ethics 245
18. Bibliography 281
19. Index 295