Small Worlds: Method, Meaning, & Narrative in Microhistory: Method, Meaning, and Narrative in Microhistory (School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series) - Softcover

Brooks, James F.

 
9781930618947: Small Worlds: Method, Meaning, & Narrative in Microhistory: Method, Meaning, and Narrative in Microhistory (School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1930618948 ISBN 13: 9781930618947
Verlag: SAR Press (a division of the School for Advanced Research, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Ethnohistorian James F. Brooks served as the president and chief executive officer at the School for Advanced Research and is currently a professor of anthropology and history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His many publications include Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands.

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Verlag
SAR Press (a division of the School for Advanced Research
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1930618948
ISBN 13 
9781930618947
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
346
Herausgeber
DeCorse Christopher R. N., Walton John
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