Critical junctions : anthropology and history beyond the cultural turn / edited by Don Kalb and Herman Tak.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kalb, Don, 1959- editor.

Tak, Herman, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnohistory.

Anthropology--Methodology.

Anthropology.

Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 p.)

Edition:

First paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, [New York] ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn Books, 2006.

Summary:

The “cultural turn” has been a multifarious and pervasive phenomenon in Western universities and modes of social knowledge since the early 1980s. This volume focuses on the conjunction of two disciplines where both the analytic promises as well as the difficulties involved in the meeting of humanist and social science approaches soon became obvious. Anthropologists and historians have come together here in order to recapture, elaborate, and criticize pre-Cultural Turn and non-Cultural Turn modes of analysing structures of experience, feeling, subjectivity and action in human societies and to highlight the still unexploited possibilities developed among others in the work of scholars such as Norbert Elias, Max Gluckman, Eric Wolf, E.P. Thompson and Raymond Williams.

Contents:

Critical Junctions; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter One. Microhistorical Anthropology; Chapter Two. The Past in the Present; Chapter Three. Figurations in Historical Anthropology; Chapter Four. Beyond the Limits of the Visible World; Chapter Five. "Bare Legs Like Ice"; Chapter Six. Prefiguring NAFTA; Chapter Seven. Historical Anthropology through Local-Level Research; Chapter Eight. Anthropology and History; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781845450298

1845450299

9781845450083

1845450086

9781782389620

1782389628