9. The Bible and the Hungarian peasant tradition

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents ix
3. Introduction xi
4. Part I. Signs, Culture, and Literature: Toward a Theory of Literary Anthropology
5. 1. Literary anthropology 3
6. 2. Literature as a source for anthropological research 51
7. 3. La théorie culturelle et les études littéraires 63
8. Part II. National Narratives and Ethnic Narratives
9. 4. Davy Crockett and Mike Fink 75
10. 5. Buddenbrooks, Thomas Mann, and north German social class 95
11. 6. Ethnic culture texts as narration 127
12. 7. Myth and Brazilian literature 141
13. 8. The recovered fragments 161
14. Part III. Literary Anthropology of Three Rural Worlds
15. 9. The Bible and the Hungarian peasant tradition 173
16. 10. The social construction of past, present and future in the written and oral texts of the Old Order Amish 195
17. 11. Transylvanian people and Transylvanian literature 257
18. Part IV. Two Genre Approaches to Literary Anthropology
19. 12. Avant-garde autobiography 273
20. 13. The anthropology in/of fiction 305
21. 14. Symposium on Literary Anthropology — transcript of the closing discussion 327
22. List of contributors 339
23. Name index 343
24. Subject index 351