Critical junctions
Subtitle: anthropology and history beyond the cultural turn
By: edited by Don Kalb and Herman Tak.
Contributors: Kalb, Don, 1959-; Tak, Herman.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
Subjects: Ethnohistory; Anthropology -- Methodology; Historiography
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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.