In Praise Of Historical Anthropology

Author : Alexandre Coello de la Rosa,Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000038576

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In Praise of Historical Anthropology by Alexandre Coello de la Rosa,Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste Pdf

In Praise of Historical Anthropology is based on a fundamental conviction: the study of society cannot be undertaken without considering the weight of history and separations between disciplines in academics need to be bridged for the benefit of knowledge. Anthropology cannot be limited to situating its object in its immediate context; rather its true subject of study is society as a historical problem. The book describes the complex attempts to transcend this separation, presenting perspectives, methodologies and direct applications for the study of power relations and systems of social classification, paying special attention to the reconstruction of colonial situations. Following the maxim expounded by John and Jean Comaroff, this book will help us understand that historical anthropology is not a matter of merging the two disciplines of anthropology and history, but rather considering societies in their historically situated dimension and applying the tools of the social and human sciences to the analysis. In this vein, the book reviews the complex attempts to bridge disciplinary separations and theoretical proposals coming from very different traditions. The text, consequently, opens up hegemonic perspectives to include 'other anthropologies.'

Author : Brian Keith Axel
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822383345

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From the Margins by Brian Keith Axel Pdf

Historical anthropology: critical exchange between two decidedly distinct disciplines or innovative mode of knowledge production? As this volume’s title suggests, the essays Brian Keith Axel has gathered in From the Margins seek to challenge the limits of discrete disciplinary epistemologies and conventions, gesturing instead toward a transdisciplinary understanding of the emerging relations between archive and field. In original articles encompassing a wide range of geographic and temporal locations, eminent scholars contest some of the primary preconceptions of their fields. The contributors tackle such topics as the paradoxical nature of American Civil War monuments, the figure of the “New Christian” in early seventeenth-century Peru, the implications of statistics for ethnography, and contemporary South Africa's “occult economies.” That anthropology and history have their provenance in—and have been complicit with—colonial formations is perhaps commonplace knowledge. But what is rarely examined is the specific manner in which colonial processes imbue and threaten the celebratory ideals of postcolonial reason or the enlightenment of today’s liberal practices in the social sciences and humanities. By elaborating this critique, From the Margins offers diverse and powerful models that explore the intersections of historically specific local practices with processes of a world historical order. As such, the collection will not only prove valuable reading for anthropologists and historians, but also for scholars in colonial, postcolonial, and globalization studies. Contributors. Talal Asad, Brian Keith Axel, Bernard S. Cohn, Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff, Nicholas B. Dirks, Irene Silverblatt, Paul A. Silverstein, Teri Silvio, Ann Laura Stoler, Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Author : Aaron Gurevich
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1992-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0226310833

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Historical Anthropology of the Middle Ages by Aaron Gurevich Pdf

Aaron Gurevich has long been considered one of the world's leading medievalists and a pioneer in the field of historical anthropology. This book brings together eleven of his most important essays—many difficult to find and some never before available in English. Gurevich's writing, while informed by the history of mentalities as practiced by the French school of Le Goff and Duby, reflects a broader view of European culture outside France. He rejects reductionist concepts and operates with a total view of culture, using a wide range of sources—legal as well as ecclesiastical, popular as well as learned, oral and visual as well as literary. This collection amply demonstrates this breadth of Gurevich's work and highlights his ability to synthesize historical, anthropological, and semiotic approaches to culture. Especially valuable are pieces such as Gurevich's essay Wealth and Gift-Bestowal Among the Ancient Scandinavians, about the importance of gift exchange in the medieval world. One of the first studies for this practice, this classic essay has for years been unavailable. Other pieces range from the deities and heroes of Germanic poetry to the image of the Beyond in the Middle Ages.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1228200343

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Historical anthropology by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kirsten Hastrup
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0415061229

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Other Histories by Kirsten Hastrup Pdf

After a decade of historical anthropology, the discipline seems to be thoroughly historicized. This implies not only that the historical dimension of other cultures has become an integrated part of any anthropological inquiry, but also that the different ways of producing history have become important considerations. Using mainly European historical and ethnographic materials, Other Historiesexamines the nature of history and its importance to anthropological study. The apparently Eurocentric perspective of this volume actually serves the purpose of dismantling the unity and progress of European history. It demonstrates that history is not linear but highly complex, often containing several separate local histories.

Author : Marilyn Silverman,P. H. Gulliver
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0231079214

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Approaching the Past by Marilyn Silverman,P. H. Gulliver Pdf

In recent years the study of history has become a central area of inquiry within anthropology. While classical anthropology focused on the present, current approaches seek to "do history" by using a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches. Approaching the Past is a highly provocative and original volume that examines the issues, themes, and difficulties emerging out of the new anthropological concern with history. Anchoring the discussion with a wide range of ethnographic case studies from Ireland, the contributors to this volume establish a sophisticated interdisciplinary dialogue and assess the degree to which anthropological concepts and methodologies can be applied to historical inquiry. With a variety of essays representing sociological, geograhical, and historical perspectives, Approaching the Past is an invaluable contribution to a discipline that is expanding and reconstituting itself anew.

Author : John & Jean Comaroff
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1992-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0813313058

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Ethnography And The Historical Imagination by John & Jean Comaroff Pdf

Over the years John and Jean Comaroff have broadened the study of culture and society with their reflections on power and meaning. In their work on Africa and colonialism they have explored some of the fundamental questions of social science, delving into the nature of history and human agency, culture and consciousness, ritual and representation. How are human differences constructed and institutionalized, transformed and (sometimes) effaced, empowered and (sometimes) resisted? How do local cultures articulate with global forms? How is the power of some people over others built, sustained, eroded, and negated? How does the social imagination take shape in novel yet collectively meaningful ways?Addressing these questions, the essays in this volume—several never before published—work toward an “imaginative sociology,” demonstrating the techniques by which social science may capture the contexts that human beings construct and inhabit. In the introduction, the authors offer their most complete statement to date on the nature of historical anthropology. Standing apart from the traditional disciplines of social history and modernist social science, their work is dedicated to discovering how human worlds are made and signified, forgotten and remade.

Author : Jonas Frykman,Orvar Löfgren
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Middle class
ISBN : 0813512395

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Culture Builders by Jonas Frykman,Orvar Löfgren Pdf

"Explains brilliantly the structures and processes of middle-class culture in historical perspective."--Robert Nye, Rutgers University " This] illuminating study of the Swedish middle class around the turn of the century . . . is one welcome sign that bourgeois, too, are once again recognized as parts of society worth studying . . . to be understood rather than to be savaged. Culture Builders is a welcome sign of yet another development: the ease with which historical studies may be integrated with neighboring disciplines."--Journal of Modern History "The authors take an impressively broad intellectual perspective. . . . The everyday routines of bourgeoisie, peasantry, and working class are dramatically portrayed through a skillful weaving together of excerpts from ethnological archives, schoolbooks, memoirs, novels, and etiquette manuals . . . provides insight into the sociocultural complexities, conflicts, and contradictions that are ignored in widely held national stereotypes."--American Anthropologist "Unites historical and ethnological approaches so as to present a way of life that will be of interest not only to scholars of Scandinavia but to historians, sociologists, and everyone trying to describe and interpret the bourgeois Western culture during the nineteenth century."--Ethnos Jonas Frykman and Orvar Lofgren teach in the Department of European Ethnology at the University of Lund, Sweden.

Author : Aron Iakovlevitch Gourevitch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : 0745606962

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Historical Anthropology of the Middle Ages by Aron Iakovlevitch Gourevitch Pdf

Informed by the history of mentalities as practised by the French school of Le Goff and Duby, Aaron Gurevich seeks to reconstruct a tapestry of European civilization and everyday life, synthesizing historical, anthropological and semiotic approaches to culture.

Author : R. Po-chia Hsia,Robert W. Scribner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015043122905

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Problems in the Historical Anthropology of Early Modern Europe by R. Po-chia Hsia,Robert W. Scribner Pdf

Author : Christoph Wulf
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226925080

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Anthropology by Christoph Wulf Pdf

Originally published in German, Christoph Wulf’s Anthropology sets its sights on a topic as ambitious as its title suggests: anthropology itself. Arguing for an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach to anthropology that incorporates science, philosophy, history, and many other disciplines, Wulf examines—with breathtaking scope—all the ways that anthropology has been understood and practiced around the globe and through the years. Seeking a central way to understand anthropology in the midst of many different approaches to the discipline, Wulf concentrates on the human body. An emblem of society, culture, and time, the body is also the result of many mimetic processes—the active acquisition of cultural knowledge. By examining the role of the body in the performance of rituals, gestures, language, and other forms of imagination, he offers a bold new look at how culture is produced, handed down, and transformed. Drawing such examinations into a comprehensive and sophisticated assessment of the discipline as a whole, Anthropology looks squarely at the mystery of humankind and the ways we have attempted to understand it.

Author : Arturo Alvarez Roldan,Han Vermeulen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134843961

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Fieldwork and Footnotes by Arturo Alvarez Roldan,Han Vermeulen Pdf

This book brings together 14 studies of the history of European anthropology from the 17th century onwards, each of which have great relevance for current debates within the discipline.

Author : Stefan Berger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107011403

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History and Identity by Stefan Berger Pdf

This introduction to contemporary historical theory and practice shows how issues of identity have shaped how we write history. Stefan Berger charts how a new self-reflexivity about what is involved in the process of writing history entered the historical profession and the part that historians have played in debates about the past and its meaningfulness for the present. He introduces key trends in the theory of history such as postmodernism, poststructuralism, constructivism, narrativism and the linguistic turn and reveals, in turn, the ways in which they have transformed how historians have written history over the last four decades. The book ranges widely from more traditional forms of history writing, such as political, social, economic, labour and cultural history, to the emergence of more recent fields, including gender history, historical anthropology, the history of memory, visual history, the history of material culture, and comparative, transnational and global history.

Author : Nicholas Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521366674

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Out of Time by Nicholas Thomas Pdf

Despite the enormous amount of work that has attempted to combine historical and anthropological approaches in recent years, few books have outlined the underlying premises that make integration of the two fields difficult. In Out of Time, Nicholas Thomas argues that a "historical perspective" cannot simply be added to conventional anthropology, which systematically takes ethnography "out of time." Drawing examples from the Polynesian anthropological literature, he points to discredited social evolutionary ideas that have persisted even after apparently dramatic theoretical shifts and to the need to take seriously sources that anthropologists have previously dismissed. When it was first published in 1989, Out of Time generated much-needed discussion on the appropriate models for historical anthropology. Thomas considered that both the historical structuralism of Marshall Sahlins and neo-Marxist regional systems theory had failed to transcend crucial limitations of conventional anthropology. Yet they provided elements of a more stimulating and critical perspective, which would also take account of contemporary political developments in the Pacific region. For this second edition, Thomas has added an afterword that reflects on the book's initial reception and brings its critique up to date. He suggests a need to historicize the professionalization of anthropology as a discipline to understand shifts in practice and the need to acknowledge the historical specificity and limits of all forms of cultural knowledge, whether "Western" or indigenous. Out of Time will be a useful text for graduate courses in anthropology, history, and cultural studies. "This book displays rare integrity: Thomas' intellectual stance toward the theoretical approaches of others is fully consistent with his own discursive practices." --Contemporary Pacific Nicholas Thomas is Senior Research Fellow, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University.

Author : Leslie Spier
Publisher : Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015002321662

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American Historical Anthropology by Leslie Spier Pdf