Word: mentalite
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That is a sample of the rich meanings Princeton History Professor Robert Darnton finds in the commonplaces of prerevolutionary France. He is exploring a relatively new branch of history, cross-fertilized by anthropology and known in France as l'histoire des mentalités. Says Darnton: "It attempts to show not merely what people thought but how they thought - how they construed the world...
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