ISBN:
0-415-06123-7
,
978-0-415-06123-0
,
0-415-06122-9 /Hb.
,
978-0-415-06122-3 /Hb.
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 133 Seiten
Edition:
First published
Series Statement:
European Association of Social Anthropologists Series
Keywords:
Europa Geschichte
;
Anthropologie, soziale
;
Methodologie
;
Tagungsbericht
Abstract:
Other Histories explores the nature of history and assesses the position of history within social anthropology. Using historical and ethnographic material, the contributors focus on the historical scene in Europe to show how cultural concepts act as forces of historical causation. By analysing and dismantling what has previously been seen as the unity and progess of European history, they emphasize the interdependence of culture and history and establish a radically new view of history itself. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
List of contributors; Introduction; 1 History and the people without Europe; 2 Making history in southern Italy; 3 The gods of the Gentiles are demons: the problem of pagan survivals in European culture; 4 Segmentation and politics in the European nation-state: making sense of political events; 5 Dual histories: a Mediterranean problem; 6 Uchronia and the two histories of Iceland, 1400-1800; 7 Reflections on 'making history'; Name index; Subject index
Note:
"[...] the making of history was chosen as one of the topics for the first conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists in Coimbra in 1990 [...]" (Introduction, Seite 1)
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