
The great cat massacre
Publicado por primera vez en 1984 · 304 páginas
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In this series of essays, Robert Darnton exhumes the strange and wonderful world views of the ordinary and extraordinary people inhabiting the cities, towns and countryside of France in what we like to call the age of enlightenment.
- Civilization
- Folklore
- French National characteristics
- France, intellectual life
- France, civilization, history
- France, social life and customs
- National characteristics, french
- Volkscultuur
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Josh80/100
Fine but not for me. I bought this book because I thought it would be a collection of weird stories about weird French people doing weird stuff. The title suggests this. Instead it turned out to be a serious academic book. A lot of the book is dedicated to questions of historical methodology. Darnton argues for adapting the techniques and intellectual methods of Cultural Anthropology to the study…
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