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- catalog abstract "Over the years John and Jean Comaroff have broadened the study of culture and society with their reflections on power and meaning. In their work on Africa and colonialism they have explored some of the fundamental questions of social science, delving into the nature of history and human agency, culture and consciousness, ritual and representation. How are human differences, constructed and institutionalized, transformed and (sometimes) effaced, empowered and (sometimes) resisted? How do local cultures articulate with global forms? How is the power of some people over others built, sustained, eroded, and negated? How does the social imagination take shape in novel yet collectively meaningful ways? Addressing' these questions, the essays in this volume--several never before published--work towards an "imaginative sociology," demonstrating the techniques by which social science may capture the contexts that human beings construct and inhabit. In the introduction, the authors offer their most complete statement to date on the nature of historical anthropology. Standing apart from the traditional disciplines of social history and modernist social science, their work is dedicated to discovering how human worlds are made, and signified, forgotten and remade.".
- catalog alternative "Anthropology online. net".
- catalog contributor b3666378.
- catalog contributor b3666379.
- catalog created "1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-326) and index.".
- catalog description "Over the years John and Jean Comaroff have broadened the study of culture and society with their reflections on power and meaning. In their work on Africa and colonialism they have explored some of the fundamental questions of social science, delving into the nature of history and human agency, culture and consciousness, ritual and representation. How are human differences, constructed and institutionalized, transformed and (sometimes) effaced, empowered and (sometimes) resisted? How do local cultures articulate with global forms? How is the power of some people over others built, sustained, eroded, and negated? How does the social imagination take shape in novel yet collectively meaningful ways? Addressing' these questions, the essays in this volume--several never before published--work towards an "imaginative sociology," demonstrating the techniques by which social science may capture the contexts that human beings construct and inhabit. In the introduction, the authors offer their most complete statement to date on the nature of historical anthropology. Standing apart from the traditional disciplines of social history and modernist social science, their work is dedicated to discovering how human worlds are made, and signified, forgotten and remade.".
- catalog description "pt. 1. Theory, ethnography, historiography -- pt. 2. Dialectical systems, imaginative sociologies -- pt. 3. Colonialism and modernity.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 337 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Ethnography and the historical imagination.".
- catalog identifier "081331304X (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0813313058 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Ethnography and the historical imagination.".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in the ethnographic imagination".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boulder : Westview Press,".
- catalog relation "Ethnography and the historical imagination.".
- catalog subject "305.8/001 20".
- catalog subject "Ethnology Methodology.".
- catalog subject "Ethnology Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "GN345 .C64 1992".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. Theory, ethnography, historiography -- pt. 2. Dialectical systems, imaginative sociologies -- pt. 3. Colonialism and modernity.".
- catalog title "Ethnography and the historical imagination / John & Jean Comaroff.".
- catalog type "text".