ISBN:
978-1-930618-94-7
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 332 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series [79]
Keywords:
Ethnologie Geschichte
;
Methodologie
;
Lehre und Didaktik
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Essay
Abstract:
Growing unease with grand theories of modernization and global integration brought twelve scholars from four disciplines to the School for Advanced Research for an experiment with the research genre known as microhistory. These authors now call for a return to narrative, detailed analysis on a small scale, and the search for unforeseen meanings embedded in cases. The essential feature of this perspective is a search for significance in the microcosm, the large lessons discovered in small worlds. Urging the recognition of potential commonalities among archaeology, history, sociology, and anthropology, the authors propose that historical interpretation should move freely across disciplines, historical study should be held up to the present, and individual lives should be understood as the intersection of biography and history. The authors develop these themes in a kaleidoscope of places and periods—West Africa, the Yucatan peninsula, Italy, Argentina, California, Brazil, Virginia, and Boston, among others. They illuminate discrete places, people, and processes through which both the intimacy of lived experience and the more distant forces that shaped their days can be viewed simultaneously. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
Lived hegemonies and biographical fragments : microsteps toward a counterhistory of the Spanish transition from dictatorship to democracy / Richard Maddox -- The hidden weight of the past : a microhistory of a failed social movement / Kathleen Blee -- To write liberation : time, history, and hope in Yucata?n / Paul K. Eiss -- Varied pasts : history, oral tradition, and archaeology on the Mina Coast / Christopher R. N. DeCorse -- Arson, social control, and popular justice in the American West : the uses of microhistory / John Walton -- The floating island : anachronism and paradox in the lost colony / Michael Harkin -- Biography as microhistory, photography as microhistory : documentary photographer Dorothea Lange as subject and agent of microhistory / Linda Gordon -- "Above vulgar economy" : the intersection of historical archaeology and microhistory in writing archaeological biographies of two New England merchants / Mary C. Beaudry -- What influences official information? : exploring aggregate microhistories of the Catasto of 1427 / Rebecca Jean Emigh -- Anomalies, clues, and neglected transcripts : microhistory and representations of the Cuban sugar frontier, 1820-1860 / Dale Tomich -- Seductions and betrayals : la frontera gauchesque, Argentine nationalism, and the predicaments of hybridity / James F. Brooks -- Oral traditions and material things : constructing histories of native people in colonial settings / Kent G. Lightfoot.
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 289-323"School for Advanced Research advanced seminar Place, Event, and Narrative Craft: Method and Meaning in Microhistory, Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 6-7, 2004" (letzte Seite)Enthält13 Beiträge
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