Critical junctions : anthropology and history beyond the cultural turn

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Critical junctions : anthropology and history beyond the cultural turn

edited by Don Kalb and Herman Tak

Berghahn Books, 2005

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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.

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Preface Introduction: Critical Junctions-Recapturing Anthropology and History Don Kalb and Herman Tak 1 Chapter 1. Microhistorical Anthropology: Toward a Prospective Perspective Don Handelman Chapter 2. The Past in the Present: Actualized History in the Social Construction of Reality Christian Giordano Chapter 3. Figurations in Historical Anthropology: Two Kinds of Structural Narrative about Long-Duration Provenances of the Holocaust Hermann Rebel Chapter 4. Beyond the Limits of the Visible World: Remapping Historical Anthropology August Carbonella Chapter 5. "Bare Legs Like Ice": Recasting Class for Local/Global Inquiry Don Kalb Chapter 6. Prefiguring NAFTA: The Politics of Land Privatization in Neoliberal Mexico Patricia Musante Chapter 7. Historical Anthropology through Local-Level Research Marilyn Silverman and P. H. Gulliver Chapter 8. Anthropology and History: Opening Points for a New Synthesis Gerald Sider Notes on Contributors Index

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