{"product_id":"critical-junctions-anthropology-and-history-beyond-the-cultural-turn-9781845450298","title":"Critical Junctions: Anthropology and History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tThe “cultural turn” has been a multifarious and pervasive phenomenon in Western universities and modes of social knowledge since the early 1980s.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e“The editors stake out an appealing middle ground that builds on the expanded notion of class that the cultural turn itself advance against a narrow economism of an earlier generation. Second, the volume reminds us of the legacy of anthropology to historical thinking.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·   Journal of Social History\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e“… highly provocative and, for an edited book, unusually even…Whether moved to agreement or to dissent, the reader will learn much from this timely collection.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  Focaal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tPreface\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction: \u003c\/strong\u003eCritical Junctions—Recapturing Anthropology and History\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDon Kalb and Herman Tak 1\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Microhistorical Anthropology: Toward a Prospective Perspective\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDon Handelman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Past in the Present: Actualized History in the Social Construction of Reality\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eChristian Giordano\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Figurations in Historical Anthropology: Two Kinds of Structural Narrative about Long-Duration Provenances of the Holocaust\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHermann Rebel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Beyond the Limits of the Visible World: Remapping Historical Anthropology\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAugust Carbonella\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e “Bare Legs Like Ice”: Recasting Class for Local\/Global Inquiry\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDon Kalb\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6. \u003c\/strong\u003ePrefiguring NAFTA: The Politics of Land Privatization in Neoliberal Mexico\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003ePatricia Musante\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7. \u003c\/strong\u003eHistorical Anthropology through Local-Level Research\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMarilyn Silverman and P. H. Gulliver\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8. \u003c\/strong\u003eAnthropology and History: Opening Points for a New Synthesis\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eGerald Sider\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tNotes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042961752407,"sku":"9781845450298","price":26.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781845450298.jpg?v=1750956416","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/critical-junctions-anthropology-and-history-beyond-the-cultural-turn-9781845450298","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}