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Volume 7

Dislocations

Reviews

“This is a provocative, demanding, and sometimes annoying book that is nevertheless very much worth the effort it takes to read it…Hermann Rebel puts his finger on difficult and unresolved issues in this challenging book.”  ·  JRAI

Description

“Peasants tell tales,” one prominent cultural historian tells us (Robert Darnton). Scholars must then determine and analyze what it is they are saying and whether or not to incorporate such tellings into their histories and ethnographies. Challenging the dominant culturalist approach associated with Clifford Geertz and Marshall Sahlins among others, this book presents a critical rethinking of the philosophical anthropologies found in specific histories and ethnographies and thereby bridges the current gap between approaches to studies of peasant society and popular culture. In challenging the methodology and theoretical frameworks currently used by social scientists interested in aspects of popular culture, the author suggests a common discursive ground can be found in an historical anthropology that recognizes how myths, fairytales and histories speak to a universal need for imagining oneself in different timescapes and for linking one’s local world with a “known” larger world.

Subject: Anthropology (General)History (General)Literary StudiesCultural Studies (General)

Area: Europe

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Of Related Interest

A Walk to the River in Amazonia

Ordinary Reality for the Mehinaku Indians

Cultures of Technology and the Quest for Innovation

Ethnography and the Corporate Encounter

Reflections on Research in and of Corporations

Culture Wars

Context, Models and Anthropologists' Accounts