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Small worlds : method, meaning, and narrative in microhistory / edited by James F. Brooks, Christopher R.N. DeCorse, and John Walton.
- Title
- Small worlds : method, meaning, and narrative in microhistory / edited by James F. Brooks, Christopher R.N. DeCorse, and John Walton.
- Publication
- Santa Fe, N.M. : School for Advanced Research Press, 2008.
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- Description
- x, 332 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "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."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series
- Uniform Title
- School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Trivia and miscellanea
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-323) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Lived hegemonies and biographical fragments : microsteps toward a counterhistory of the Spanish transition from dictatorship to democracy / Richard Maddox -- The hidden weight of the past : a microhistory of a failed social movement / Kathleen Blee -- To write liberation : time, history, and hope in Yucatán / Paul K. Eiss -- Varied pasts : history, oral tradition, and archaeology on the Mina Coast / Christopher R. N. DeCorse -- Arson, social control, and popular justice in the American West : the uses of microhistory / John Walton -- The floating island : anachronism and paradox in the lost colony / Michael Harkin -- Biography as microhistory, photography as microhistory : documentary photographer Dorothea Lange as subject and agent of microhistory / Linda Gordon -- "Above vulgar economy" : the intersection of historical archaeology and microhistory in writing archaeological biographies of two New England merchants / Mary C. Beaudry -- What influences official information? : exploring aggregate microhistories of the Catasto of 1427 / Rebecca Jean Emigh -- Anomalies, clues, and neglected transcripts : microhistory and representations of the Cuban sugar frontier, 1820-1860 / Dale Tomich -- Seductions and betrayals : la frontera gauchesque, Argentine nationalism, and the predicaments of hybridity / James F. Brooks -- Oral traditions and material things : constructing histories of native people in colonial settings / Kent G. Lightfoot.
- ISBN
- 1930618948 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9781930618947 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2007045247
- OCLC
- 173807358
- SCSB-11770133
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library