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- Title
Can the 'Peasant' Speak?
- Authors
Pooley, William G.
- Abstract
This article proposes a close reading of a description of witchcraft collected in southwestern France in the nineteenth century. Drawing on archival research into the informant and the folklorist it suggests that such a text, for all of its failings, still has much to teach historians about the situation of contact between the world of the folklorists and their predominantly rural informants.
- Subjects
GASCONY (France); FRANCE; CAZAUX, Guillaume; BLADE, Jean-Francois; PEASANTS; FOLKLORE &; history; COUNTRY life; WITCHCRAFT in literature; FRENCH folk literature; HISTORICAL research methods; FOLKLORE history; 19TH century French history; PEASANTS -- History
- Publication
Western Folklore, 2012, Vol 71, Issue 2, p93
- ISSN
0043-373X
- Publication type
Article