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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809682603321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2006

ISBN

1-84545-029-9

1-84545-008-6

1-78238-962-8

Edizione

[First paperback edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 p.)

Classificazione

73.02

15.01

Disciplina

303.4

Soggetti

Ethnohistory

Anthropology - Methodology

Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.