Ethnography and the historical imagination
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Ethnography and the historical imagination
（Studies in the ethnographic imagination）
Westview Press, 1992
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアフリカ専攻
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Note
Includes bibliography (p. 297-326) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: hard ISBN 9780813313047
Description
Over the years the authors have broadened the study of culture and society with their reflections on power and meaning. The essays in this volume work toward an "imaginative sociology".
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Theory, ethnography, historiography: ethnography and the historical imagination
- of totemism and ethnicity
- bodily reform as historical practice. Part 2 Dialectical systems, imaginative sociologies: the long and the short of it
- goodly beasts, beastly goods
- the madman and the migrant. Part 3 Colonialism and modernity: images of empire, contests of conscience
- medicine, colonialism, and the black body
- the colonization of consciousness
- homemade hegemony.
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: pbk ISBN 9780813313054
Description
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 volumeseveral never before publishedwork 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.
Table of Contents
Theory, Ethnography, Historiography * Ethnography and the Historical Imagination * Of Totemism and Ethnicity * Bodily Reform as Historical Practice Dialectical Systems, Imaginative Sociologies * The Long and the Short of It * Goodly Beasts, Beastly Goods * The Madman and the Migrant Colonialism And Modernity * Images of Empire, Contests of ConscienceMedicine, Colonialism, and the Black BodyThe Colonization of ConsciousnessHomemade Hegemony
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