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The Limits of Patriarchy : How Female Networks of Pilfering and Gossip Sparke…
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STARK, Laura

"In the mid-19th century, letters to newspapers in Finland began to condemn a practice known as home thievery, in which farm mistresses pilfered goods from their farms to sell behind the farm master’s back. Why did farm mistresses engage home thievery and why were writers so harsh in their disapproval of it? Why did many men in their letters nonetheless sympathize with women’s pilfering? Wh…

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978-952-222-758-4
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Studia Fennica Ethnologica 13
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070.4 STA l
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The Limits of Patriarchy: How Female Networks of Pilfering and Gossip Sparked…
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STARK, Laura

In the mid-19th century, letters to newspapers in Finland began to condemn a practice known as home thievery, in which farm mistresses pilfered goods from their farms to sell behind the farm master’s back. Why did farm mistresses engage home thievery and why were writers so harsh in their disapproval of it? Why did many men in their letters nonetheless sympathize with women’s pilfering? Wha…

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9789522223272
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909.81 STA l
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Peasants, Pilgrims, and Sacred Promises
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STARK, Laura

Lying on the border between eastern and western Christendom, Orthodox Karelia preserved its unique religious culture into the 19th and 20th centuries, when it was described and recorded by Finnish and Karelian folklore collectors. This colorful array of ritulas and beliefs involving nature spirits, saints, the dead, and pilgrimage to monasteries represented a unigue fusion of official Church ri…

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9789517463669
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306.6 STA p