Approaches To The History Of Written Culture

Author : Martyn Lyons,Rita Marquilhas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319541365

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Approaches to the History of Written Culture by Martyn Lyons,Rita Marquilhas Pdf

This book investigates the history of writing as a cultural practice in a variety of contexts and periods. It analyses the rituals and practices determining intimate or ‘ordinary’ writing as well as bureaucratic and religious writing. From the inscribed images of ‘pre-literate’ societies, to the democratization of writing in the modern era, access to writing technology and its public and private uses are examined. In ten studies, presented by leading historians of scribal culture from seven countries, the book investigates the uses of writing in non-alphabetical as well as alphabetical script, in societies ranging from Native America and ancient Korea to modern Europe. The authors emphasise the material characteristics of writing, and in so doing they pose questions about the definition of writing itself. Drawing on expertise in various disciplines, they give an up-to-date account of the current state of knowledge in a field at the forefront of ‘Book History’.

Author : Anne Gerritsen,Giorgio Riello
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350105249

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Writing Material Culture History by Anne Gerritsen,Giorgio Riello Pdf

Writing Material Culture History 2e examines the methodologies used in the historical study of material culture. Looking at archaeology, anthropology, art history and literary studies, the book provides students with a fundamental understanding of the relationship between artefacts and historical narratives. The book addresses the role of museums, the impact of the digital age and the representations of objects in public history, bringing together students and specialists from around the world. This new edition includes: A new substantive introduction from the editors, providing a useful roadmap for students and specialists. A more balanced and easy-to-use structure, including methodological chapters and 'object in focus' chapters consisting of case studies for classroom discussion. New chapters showing greater engagement with 20th-century material culture, non-European artefacts and the definitions and limits of material culture as a discipline. Offers global coverage and discussion of both the early modern and modern periods. Writing Material Culture History 2e is an essential tool for students seeking to understand the potential of objects to re-cast established historical narratives in new and exciting ways.

Author : Philip John Boyes,Philippa M. Steele,Natalia Elvira Astoreca
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9781789254815

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The Social and Cultural Contexts of Historic Writing Practices by Philip John Boyes,Philippa M. Steele,Natalia Elvira Astoreca Pdf

Writing is not just a set of systems for transcribing language and communicating meaning, but an important element of human practice, deeply embedded in the cultures where it is present and fundamentally interconnected with all other aspects of human life. 'The Social and Cultural Contexts of Historic Writing Practices' explores these relationships in a number of different cultural contexts and from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including archaeological, anthropological and linguistic. It offers new ways of approaching the study of writing and integrating it into wider debates and discussions about culture, history and archaeology.

Author : Anne Gerritsen,Giorgio Riello
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350105232

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Writing Material Culture History by Anne Gerritsen,Giorgio Riello Pdf

Writing Material Culture History examines the methodologies currently used in the historical study of material culture. Touching on archaeology, anthropology, art history and literary studies, the book provides history students with a fundamental understanding of the relationship between artefacts and historical narratives. The role of museums, the impact of the digital age and the representations of objects in public history are just some of the issues addressed in a book that brings together distinguished scholars from around the world. This new edition includes: * A new wide-ranging introduction highlighting the role of material culture in the modern period and presenting recent contributions to the field. * A more balanced and easy-to-use structure, including 9 methodological chapters and 20 'object in focus' chapters consisting of case studies for classroom discussion. * 5 fresh 'object in focus' chapters showing greater engagement with 20th-century material culture, non-European artefacts (particularly in relation to issues of power, indigenity and repatriation of objects), architecture (with pieces on industrial heritage in Europe and on heritage destruction in China) and the definitions and limits of material culture as a discipline. * Expanded online resources to help students navigate the museums/institutions holding key artefacts. * Historiographical updates and revisions throughout the text. Focusing on the global dimension of material culture and bridging the gap between the early modern and modern periods, Writing Material Culture History is an essential tool for helping students understand the potential of objects to re-cast established historical narratives in new and exciting ways.

Author : James Clifford,George E. Marcus
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520057295

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Writing Culture by James Clifford,George E. Marcus Pdf

"Humanists and social scientists alike will profit from reflection on the efforts of the contributors to reimagine anthropology in terms, not only of methodology, but also of politics, ethics, and historical relevance. Every discipline in the human and social sciences could use such a book."--Hayden White, author of Metahistory

Author : Orin Starn
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822375654

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Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropology by Orin Starn Pdf

Using the influential and field-changing Writing Culture as a point of departure, the thirteen essays in Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropology address anthropology's past, present, and future. The contributors, all leading figures in anthropology today, reflect back on the "writing culture" movement of the 1980s, consider its influences on ethnographic research and writing, and debate what counts as ethnography in a post-Writing Culture era. They address questions of ethnographic method, new forms the presentation of research might take, and the anthropologist's role. Exploring themes such as late industrialism, precarity, violence, science and technology, globalization, and the non-human world, this book is essential reading for those looking to understand the current state of anthropology and its possibilities going forward. Contributors. Anne Allison, James Clifford, Michael M.J. Fischer, Kim Fortun, Richard Handler, John L. Jackson, Jr., George E. Marcus, Charles Piot, Hugh Raffles, Danilyn Rutherford, Orin Starn, Kathleen Stewart, Michael Taussig, Kamala Visweswaran

Author : Caroline F. Ware
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Civilization
ISBN : OCLC:474291461

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The Cultural Approach to History by Caroline F. Ware Pdf

Author : Adrien Delmas,Nigel Penn
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004223899

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Written Culture in a Colonial Context by Adrien Delmas,Nigel Penn Pdf

Exploring the extent to which the control over the materiality of writing has shaped the numerous and complex processes of cultural exchange from the 16th century onwards, this book introduces the specifities of written culture anchored in colonial contexts.

Author : Peter Burke
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780745676869

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Social History of Knowledge by Peter Burke Pdf

In this book Peter Burke adopts a socio-cultural approach toexamine the changes in the organization of knowledge in Europe fromthe invention of printing to the publication of the FrenchEncyclopédie. The book opens with an assessment of different sociologies ofknowledge from Mannheim to Foucault and beyond, and goes on todiscuss intellectuals as a social group and the social institutions(especially universities and academies) which encouraged ordiscouraged intellectual innovation. Then, in a series of separatechapters, Burke explores the geography, anthropology, politics andeconomics of knowledge, focusing on the role of cities, academies,states and markets in the process of gathering, classifying,spreading and sometimes concealing information. The final chaptersdeal with knowledge from the point of view of the individualreader, listener, viewer or consumer, including the problem of thereliability of knowledge discussed so vigorously in the seventeenthcentury. One of the most original features of this book is its discussionof knowledges in the plural. It centres on printed knowledge,especially academic knowledge, but it treats the history of theknowledge 'explosion' which followed the invention of printing andthe discovery of the world beyond Europe as a process of exchangeor negotiation between different knowledges, such as male andfemale, theoretical and practical, high-status and low-status, andEuropean and non-European. Although written primarily as a contribution to social orsocio-cultural history, this book will also be of interest tohistorians of science, sociologists, anthropologists, geographersand others in another age of information explosion.

Author : Peter Burke
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780745658674

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What is Cultural History? by Peter Burke Pdf

What is Cultural History? has established itself as an essential guide to what cultural historians do and how they do it. Now fully updated in its second edition, leading historian Peter Burke offers afresh his accessible guide to the past, present and future of cultural history, as it has been practised not only in the English-speaking world, but also in Continental Europe, Asia, South America and elsewhere. Burke begins by providing a discussion of the ‘classic’ phase of cultural history, associated with Jacob Burckhardt and Johan Huizinga, and of the Marxist reaction, from Frederick Antal to Edward Thompson. He then charts the rise of cultural history in more recent times, concentrating on the work of the last generation, often described as the ‘New Cultural History'. He places cultural history in its own cultural context, noting links between new approaches to historical thought and writing and the rise of feminism, postcolonial studies and an everyday discourse in which the idea of culture plays an increasingly important part. The new edition also surveys the very latest developments in the field and considers the directions cultural history may be taking in the twenty-first century. The second edition of What is Cultural History? will continue to be an essential textbook for all students of history as well as those taking courses in cultural, anthropological and literary studies.

Author : Marek Tamm,Peter Burke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474281935

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Debating New Approaches to History by Marek Tamm,Peter Burke Pdf

With its innovative format, Debating New Approaches to History addresses issues currently at the top of the discipline's theoretical and methodological agenda. In its chapters, leading historians of both older and younger generations from across the Western world and beyond discuss and debate the main problems and challenges that historians are facing today. Each chapter is followed by a critical commentary from another key scholar in the field and the author's response. The volume looks at topics such as the importance and consequences of the 'digital turn' in history (what will history writing be like in a digital age?), the challenge of posthumanist theory for history writing (how do we write the history of non-humans?) and the possibilities of moving beyond traditional sources in history and establishing a dialogue with genetics and neurosciences (what are the perspectives and limits of the so-called 'neurohistory'?). It also revisits older debates in history which remain crucial, such as what the gender approach can offer to historical research or how to write history on a global scale. Debating New Approaches to History does not just provide a useful overview of the new approaches to history it covers, but also offers insights into current historical debates and the process of historical method in the making. It demonstrates how the discipline of history has responded to challenges in society – such as digitalization, globalization and environmental concerns – as well as in humanities and social sciences, such as the 'material turn', 'visual turn' or 'affective turn'. This is a key volume for all students of historiography wanting to keep their finger on the pulse of contemporary thinking in historical research.

Author : Karsten Kumoll
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1845456750

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Beyond Writing Culture by Karsten Kumoll Pdf

Two decades after the publication of Clifford and Marcus' volume Writing Culture, this collection provides a fresh and diverse reassessment of the debates that this pioneering volume unleashed. At the same time, Beyond Writing Culture moves the debate on by embracing the more fundamental challenge as to how to conceptualise the intricate relationship between epistemology and representational practices rather than maintaining the original narrow focus on textual analysis. It thus offers a thought-provoking tapestry of new ideas relevant for scholars not only concerned with 'the ethnographic Other', but with representation in general.

Author : Johannes Feichtinger,Anil Bhatti,Cornelia Hülmbauer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030379223

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How to Write the Global History of Knowledge-Making by Johannes Feichtinger,Anil Bhatti,Cornelia Hülmbauer Pdf

This multidisciplinary collection of essays provides a critical and comprehensive understanding of how knowledge has been made, moved and used, by whom and for what purpose. To explain how new knowledge emerges, this volume offers a two-fold conceptual move: challenging both the premise of insurmountable differences between confined, autarkic cultures and the linear, nation-centered approach to the spread of immutable stocks of knowledge. Rather, the conceptual focus of the book is on the circulation, amalgamation and reconfiguration of locally shaped bodies of knowledge on a broader, global scale. The authors emphasize that the histories of interaction have been made less transparent through the study of cultural representations thus distorting the view of how knowledge is actually produced. Leading scholars from a range of fields, including history, philosophy, social anthropology and comparative culture research, have contributed chapters which cover the period from the early modern age to the present day and investigate settings in Africa, Asia, and Europe. Their particular focus is on areas that have largely been neglected until now. In this work, readers from many disciplines will find new approaches to writing the global history of knowledge-making, especially historians, scholars of the history and philosophy of science, and those in culture studies.

Author : Kathleen McCormick
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : College readers
ISBN : 0205261760

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Reading Our Histories, Understanding Our Cultures by Kathleen McCormick Pdf

Reading Our Histories, Understanding Our Cultures: A Sequenced Approach to Thinking, Reading, and Writing is based on the assumption that the life of every person is intimately connected to the life of the culture. This innovative, class-tested anthology translates the best of current work in cultural studies and process approaches to writing into practical sequenced assignments, motivating students to develop essential critical thinking, reading, and writing skills. Students are asked to engage in two complementary forms of inquiry consistently throughout the book: "historical analysis" in which they analyze change and continuity over time; and "cultural analysis" in which they explore how and why different perspectives can exist within the same time period. This kind of inquiry is meant to engage students' personal interest and, in the process, to reconceptualize what is thought of as "the personal" within larger social contexts. It enables students to move from writing just "opinion" to writing analytically and persuasively about their own perspectives and those of others. The readings in each chapter carefully juxtapose older historical primary texts with contemporary texts to give students a sense of the historical antecedents of current debates. Historical and cultural analysis is integrated in assignment sequences at the end of each chapter. Each chapter also gives students opportunities to engage in "fastwriting" assignments linking their personal experiences with the issues about which they are reading. In short, Reading Our Histories, Understanding Our Cultures: A Sequenced Approach to Thinking, Reading, and Writing teaches students to trace how a particular issue is woven into the larger cultural and social fabric, and to negotiate among different perspectives from the past and present to develop a position of their own. This kind of work is where genuine critical inquiry begins.

Author : American Historical Association
Publisher : Port Washington, N.Y., Kennikat Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Civilization
ISBN : UOM:39015054074847

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The Cultural Approach to History by American Historical Association Pdf