Critical Junctions: Anthropology and History Beyond the Cultural Turn Contributor(s): Kalb, Don (Editor), Tak, Herman (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1845450086 ISBN-13: 9781845450083 Publisher: Berghahn Books OUR PRICE: $128.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2005 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Methodology - History | Modern - 20th Century - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
Dewey: 303.4 |
LCCN: 2004055427 |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 9" (0.95 lbs) 224 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Tak, Herman: - Herman Tak is an Associate Professor of European Anthropology at University College Roosevelt in The Netherlands. Kalb, Don: - "Don Kalb is Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Central European University, Budapest, and Senior Researcher at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. His books include Expanding Class: Power and Everyday Politics in Industrial Communities, The Netherlands, 1850-1950 (Duke University Press 1997); The Ends of Globalization. Bringing Society back in, (ed., Rowman and Littlefield 2000); Globalization and Development: Key Issues and Debates (ed., Kluwer Academic 2004); Headlines of Nation, Subtext of Class: Working Class Populism and the Return of the Repressed in Neoliberal Europe (co-ed (with Gábor Halmai), Berghahn Books 2011). He is the founding editor of Focaal - Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. " |