Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture.GN345 2004-055427 1-84545-008-6 Critical junctions; anthropology and history; pathways beyond the cultural turn. Title main entry. Ed. by Don Kalb and Herman Tak. Berghahn Books, [c]2005 185 p. $45.00 The term "cultural turn" has been a part of academe since the 1980s, and here a group of anthropologists and historians work together on the issues raised under the "cultural turn" and "non-cultural turn" modes of analyzing experience, feeling, subjectivity, and action in human societies. Drawing on the work of Elias, Gluckman, Wolf, Thompson, and Williams in this field, eight contributions discuss such topics as the impact of microhistorical anthropology and actualized ac·tu·al·ize v. ac·tu·al·ized, ac·tu·al·iz·ing, ac·tu·al·iz·es v.tr. 1. To realize in action or make real: "More flexible life patterns could . . . history in the social construction of reality, historical anthropology in two kinds of structural narrative about the Holocaust Holocaust (hŏl`əkôst', hō`lə–), name given to the period of persecution and extermination of European Jews by Nazi Germany. , the recasting re·cast tr.v. re·cast, re·cast·ing, re·casts 1. To mold again: recast a bell. 2. of class for local and global inquiry, land privatization privatization: see nationalization. privatization Transfer of government services or assets to the private sector. State-owned assets may be sold to private owners, or statutory restrictions on competition between privately and publicly owned in neoliberal ne·o·lib·er·al·ism n. A political movement beginning in the 1960s that blends traditional liberal concerns for social justice with an emphasis on economic growth. ne Mexico, and opening points for a new synthesis between history and anthropology. |
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