Critical Junctions : : Anthropology and History beyond the Cultural Turn / / ed. by Don Kalb, Herman Tak.

• MitwirkendeR: Carbonella, August,; Giordano, Christian,; Gulliver, P. H.,; Handelman, Don,; Kalb, Don,; Musante, Patricia,; Rebel, Hermann,; Sider, Gerald,; Silverman, Marilyn,; Tak, Herman,
• HerausgeberIn: Kalb, Don,; Tak, Herman,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2005]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Critical Junctions—Recapturing Anthropology and History -- Chapter 1 Microhistorical Anthropology: Toward a Prospective Perspective -- Chapter 2 The Past in the Present: Actualized History in the Social Construction of Reality -- Chapter 3 Figurations in Historical Anthropology: Two Kinds of Structural Narrative about Long-Duration Provenances of the Holocaust -- Chapter 4 Beyond the Limits of the Visible World: Remapping Historical Anthropology -- Chapter 5 “Bare Legs Like Ice”: Recasting Class for Local/Global Inquiry -- Chapter Six Prefiguring NAFTA The Politics of Land Privatization in Neoliberal Mexico -- Chapter Seven Historical Anthropology through Local-Level Research -- Chapter Eight Anthropology and History Opening Points for a New Synthesis -- Contributors -- Index