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Lost Worlds - How Our European Ancestors Coped with Everyday Life and Why Life is So Hard Today (Hardcover)
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Lost Worlds - How Our European Ancestors Coped with Everyday Life and Why Life is So Hard Today (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Early Modern German History
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The publication of ""Lost Worlds"" introduces to English-speaking
readers one of the most original and engaging historians in Germany
today. Known for his work in historical demography, Arthur E. Imhof
here branches out into folklore, religion, anthropology, psychology
and the history of art. Originally published in Germany in 1984,
""Lost Worlds"" is similar in approach to Natalie Davis's ""The
Return of Martin Guerre"" and Carlo Ginzburg's ""Cheese and the
Worms"". Imhof begins by reconstructing the world and worldview of
Johannes Hooss, a farmer in a remote Hessian village. The everyday
life of such a man was particular to his region; he spoke a local
dialect and shared a regional culture. By exploring the various
systems that made sense out of this circumscribed existence -
astrology, the folklore of the seasons, and Christian
interpretations of birth, confirmation, marriage and death - Imhof
expands the book into a speculation on why life in the late 20th
century can seem meaningless and difficult.
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