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The rural village in nineteenth-century Europe was caught in conflict between its traditional local culture and its new integration into the grasp of state institutions and modern social structures. Local practices were turned into crimes; the social meaning of crime within the village culture was redefined by the new standards of bourgeois penal law and psychiatry. The language of the intruding agencies has structured, by a wealth of written documentation, the image of village life for the outside world.
Criminal investigations, however, had to be based on interrogations of the villagers themselves. It is through this record of a traditional oral culture that the villagers' own views, language, and symbolic gestures have been preserved. This book uses an analytical approach informed by social history, folklore and gender studies, anthropology, criminology, and psychoanalysis to reconstruct the cultural implications of these documents, which originated from the very moment when traditional village culture was being called into question.
Based on archival records of prosecutions of the three most important rural types of crime before the penal courts of Upper Bavaria in the late nineteenth century - arson, infanticide, and poaching - this study in historical anthropology reveals the fabric of the village society: its norms, conflicts, and hidden meanings.
Concentrating on the individual in conflict within the household economy and the local community, it gives a new and original interpretation of power structures, gender relations, and generational rites of passage within the village.
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Court records, Criminal registers, History, Rural conditions, Rural crimes, Village communities, Pyromanie, Stropen, Infanticide, Kindestotung, Rural Population, Kindermoord, Landlicher Raum, Communautes rurales, Femmes, Paysannerie, Conditions sociales, Criminal records, Fallsammlung, Proces, Wilderei, Brandstiftung, Incendies criminels, Crime, Braconnage, Mental Disorders, Conditions rurales, Crime, germany, Villages, germany, Germany, social conditionsPlaces
Germany, Oberbayern, Oberbayern (Germany)Times
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The village in court: arson, infanticide, and poaching in the court records of Upper Bavaria, 1848-1910
1994, Cambridge University Press
in English
0521431867 9780521431866
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