Clio/anthropos : exploring the boundaries between history and anthropology / edited by Andrew Willford and Eric Tagliacozzo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Willford, Andrew C. (Andrew Clinton)

Tagliacozzo, Eric.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnohistory.

Anthropology and history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The intersection between history and anthropology is more varied now than it has ever been—a look at the shelves of bookstores and libraries proves this. Historians have increasingly looked to the methodologies of anthropologists to explain inequalities of power, problems of voicelessness, and conceptions of social change from an inside perspective. And ethnologists have increasingly relied on longitudinal visions of their subjects, inquiries framed by the lens of history rather than purely structuralist, culturalist, or functionalist visions of behavior. The contributors have dealt with the problems and possibilities of the blurring of these boundaries in different and exciting ways. They provide further fodder for a cross-disciplinary experiment that is already well under way, describing peoples and their cultures in a world where boundaries are evermore fluid but where we all are alarmingly attached to the cataloguing and marking of national, ethnic, racial, and religious differences.

Contents:

Introduction : history and anthropology

strange bedfellows / Eric Tagliacozzo and Andrew Willford

In search of the colonial subject / David Arnold

Laughing at Leviathan : John Furnivall, Dutch New Guinea, and the ridiculousness of colonial rule / Danilyn Rutherford

Export ceramics in Philippine societies : historical and ethnographic perspectives / Eric Tagliacozzo

Chronotopes of a dystopic nation : the birth of "dependency" in late Porfirian Mexico / Claudio Lomnitz

Foretelling ethnicity in Trinidad : the post emancipation "labor problem" / Viranjini Munasinghe

The nationalization of ethnology : Japan and China in Manchuria / Prasenjit Duara

The figure of the Tamil in modern Malaysia / Andrew Willford

Unsettled stories and inadequate metaphors : the movement to historical anthropology / David William Cohen.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804772402

0804772401

OCLC:

647835970