The Mammoth and the Mouse
Microhistory and Morphology
Egmond, Florike; Mason, Peter Publisher: Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, USA
Year Published: 1997
Pages: 246pp ISBN: 0-8018-5478-4
Library of Congress Number: D16.E32 1997 Dewey: 907.2-dc21
Resource Type: Book
Essays exploring the theoretical relationship between the microhistorical method of paying careful attention to revealing details and the morphological method of looking for homologies among cultural artifacts or texts from different places and times.
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Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I
Into The Archipelago
1. Excursions
Part II
Points of Distinction
2. Points of Honor: The Limits of Comparison
3. Points of Comparison: Saints, Sorcerers, and Shamans
4. Points of Identity: Sketching a Jewish Profile
Part III
Reinvention and the Resistance to Chronology
5. The Resistance to History
6. The Longue Duree of Ritual Punishment
7. Images of the Barbarian
Postscript: Morphology and History
Notes
References
Topics
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