Defiled Trades and Social Outcasts: Honor and Ritual Pollution in Early Modern Germany - Couverture rigide

Stuart, Kathy

 
9780521652391: Defiled Trades and Social Outcasts: Honor and Ritual Pollution in Early Modern Germany
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ISBN 10 : 0521652391 ISBN 13 : 9780521652391
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2000

Synopsis

This book presents a social and cultural history of 'dishonourable people' (unehrliche Leute), an outcast group in early modern Germany. Executioners, skinners, grave-diggers, shepherds, barber-surgeons, millers, linen-weavers, sow-gelders, latrine-cleaners, and bailiffs were among the 'dishonourable' by virtue of their trades. This dishonour was either hereditary, often through several generations, or it arose from ritual pollution whereby honourable citizens could become dishonourable by coming into casual contact with members of the outcast group. The dishonourable milieu of the city of Augsburg from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries is reconstructed to show the extent to which dishonour determined the life-chances and self-identity of dishonourable people. The book then investigates how honourable estates interacted with dishonourable people, and how the pollution anxieties of early modern Germans structured social and political relations within honourable society.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book presents a social and cultural history of 'dishonourable people' (unehrliche Leute), an outcast group in early modern Germany. Executioners, skinners, grave-diggers, shepherds, barber-surgeons, millers, linen-weavers, sow-gelders, latrine-cleaners, and bailiffs were among the 'dishonourable' by virtue of their trades. This dishonour was either hereditary, often through several generations, or it arose from ritual pollution whereby honourable citizens could become dishonourable by coming into casual contact with members of the outcast group. The dishonourable milieu of the city of Augsburg from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries is reconstructed to show the extent to which dishonour determined the life-chances and self-identity of dishonourable people. The book then investigates how honourable estates interacted with dishonourable people, and how the pollution anxieties of early modern Germans structured social and political relations within honourable society.

Revue de presse

'This is a splendid book, carefully honed over several years, beautifully written, and a delight to read.' David Warren Sabean, Journal of Social History

'Rarely has an anthropologically informed study been joined with such careful attention to local judicial records.This is an excellent book.' H. C. Erik Midelfort, The American Historical Review

'... Kathy Stuart has written an important and original book that deserves to be read by a wide circle of scholars.' R. Po-chia Hsia, Central European History

'This award-winning monograph represents a major contribution to our understanding of marginal groups and artisanal culture through its functional analysis of the mechanisms of prejudice.' David Lederer, German History

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521652391
ISBN 13 
9780521652391
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
300
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
Avery
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9780521027212: Defiled Trades and Social Outcasts

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0521027217 ISBN 13 :  9780521027212
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2008
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