Format:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
ISBN:
1139379356
,
1139023470
,
9781139379359
,
9781139023474
Series Statement:
Cambridge social and cultural histories series 18
Content:
An innovative study revealing that folklore collections can shed new light on the lives of the socially marginalized
Content:
Bounding and bonding a community through storytellingA community in transformation; 2: The sailor's tale: storytelling on board the North Atlantic fishing fleet; Young men's storytelling: the culture of aggressive individualism; The martyred cabinboy:́ myths and realities of the Grand Banks; Storytelling at sea: negotiating networks and hierarchies; 3: Love riddles and family strategies: the dâyemans of Lorraine; Wit-combat and family strategies; Verbal games of courtship, medieval and modern; Couple formation in rural Lorraine; The dâyage and courtship.
Content:
Cover; Voices of the People in Nineteenth-Century France; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Maps; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: Folklore and the historian; Voices from below; Historians' use and neglect of folkloric sources; Doubts and hesitations about folkloric sources; Folkloristics and the study of popular culture; 1: Storytelling in a maritime community: Saint-Cast, 1879-1882; Folklore fieldwork: Paul Sébillot at Saint-Cast; The networks of informants: the women; The networks of informants: the men; The character of the community.
Content:
PRIMARY SOURCES: UNPUBLISHEDUNPUBLISHED THESES AND DISSERTATIONS; NEWSPAPERS; PRINTED PRIMARY SOURCES; SECONDARY SOURCES; Index.
Content:
The peasant's place in the Society of OrdersA peasant vision?; Le pauvre laboureur ́and the peasant vision; Is a laboureur ́a peasant?́; A peasant ideology?; 6: The visionary world of the Vellave lacemaker; Victor Smith and the songs of the Velay and the Forez; The Le Puy lace fabrique and the béate;́ Oral culture and religious education: the repertoire of Sœur Sainte-Claire; Dives and Lazarus: poverty and charity in lacemakers' songs; Heterodox saints: Mary Magdalene and Saint Alexis; The aesthetics of poverty; Conclusion: Between the micro and the macro; Bibliography.
Content:
The dônage and the exercise of marital choiceLearning to love; Ecotypes and the political environment; 4: Storytelling and family dynamics in an extended household: the Briffaults of Montigny-aux-Amognes; Family strategies and their discontents; The joint family in the Nièvre; The Chaumereuil-Briffault communauté; The Briffaults and the Millien connection; Folktale and family ecotypes; Men and women in the peasant household; The folktale as biography; 5: Work songs and peasant visions of the social order; 'Etic' and 'emic' definitions of the peasantry.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
1280647809
Additional Edition:
9781280647802
Additional Edition:
9781139375061
Additional Edition:
1139375067
Additional Edition:
9781139376495
Additional Edition:
1139376497
Additional Edition:
9780521519366
Additional Edition:
0521519365
Additional Edition:
9780521519366
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hopkin, David Voices of the People in Nineteenth-Century France Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9780521519366
Language:
English
