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Micro, Macro, Agency: Historical Ethnography as Cultural Anthropology Practice

In its current form of "European ethnology," Volkskunde is increasingly conceptualized as a Europe-oriented study of the present. As a result, historical research is often limited to those periods considered part of the European "modern," and may be restricted to uses that illumi...

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Published in:	Journal of folklore research 2007-01, Vol.44 (1), p.67-99
Main Authors:	Michaela Fenske, Bendix, John
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