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Overview
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.
Synopsis
The term "cultural turn" has been a part of academe since the 1980s, and here a group of anthropologists and historians work together on the issues raised under the "cultural turn" and "non-cultural turn" modes of analyzing experience, feeling, subjectivity, and action in human societies. Drawing on the work of Elias, Gluckman, Wolf, Thompson, and Williams in this field, eight contributions discuss such topics as the impact of microhistorical anthropology and actualized history in the social construction of reality, historical anthropology in two kinds of structural narrative about the Holocaust, the recasting of class for local and global inquiry, land privatization in neoliberal Mexico, and opening points for a new synthesis between history and anthropology. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR