Ethnography and the historical imagination
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Ethnography and the historical imagination
Routledge, 2018
- : hbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
[Reprint]. Originally published: Westview Press , 1992
Originally issued in the series: Studies in the ethnographic imagination
Original ISBN: 081331304X, 0813313058 (pbk.)
Includes bibliography (p. 297-326) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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 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.
Table of Contents
Part One: Theory, Ethnography, Historiography 1 Ethnography and the Historical Imagination 2 Of Totemism and Ethnicity 3 Bodily Reform as Historical Practice Part Two: Dialectical Systems, Imaginative Sociologies 4 The Long and the Short oflt 5 Goodly Beasts, Beastly Goods 6 The Madman and the Migrant Part Three: Colonialism and Modernity 7 Images of Empire, Contests of Conscience 8 Medicine, Colonialism, and the Black Body 9 The Colonization of Consciousness 10 Homemade Hegemony
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