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Voices of the People in Nineteenth-Century France (Hardcover, New)
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Voices of the People in Nineteenth-Century France (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories
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This innovative study of the lives of ordinary people - peasants,
fishermen, textile workers - in nineteenth-century France
demonstrates how folklore collections can be used to shed new light
on the socially marginalized. David Hopkin explores the ways in
which people used traditional genres such as stories, songs and
riddles to highlight problems in their daily lives and give vent to
their desires without undermining the two key institutions of their
social world - the family and the community. The book addresses
recognized problems in social history such as the division of power
within the peasant family, the maintenance of communal bonds in
competitive environments, and marriage strategies in unequal
societies, showing how social and cultural history can be
reconnected through the study of individual voices recorded by
folklorists. Above all, it reveals how oral culture provided
mechanisms for the poor to assert some control over their own
destinies.
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