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The Resource Small worlds : method, meaning, and narrative in microhistory, edited by James F. Brooks, Christopher R.N. DeCorse, and John Walton

Small worlds : method, meaning, and narrative in microhistory, edited by James F. Brooks, Christopher R.N. DeCorse, and John Walton

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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
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
1st ed.
Extent
x, 332 pages
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
9781930618947
Instance
Label
Small worlds : method, meaning, and narrative in microhistory
Title
Small worlds
Title remainder
method, meaning, and narrative in microhistory
Statement of responsibility
edited by James F. Brooks, Christopher R.N. DeCorse, and John Walton
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Subject
Genre
Language
eng
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
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Dewey number
301
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
Index
index present
LC call number
GN345
LC item number
.S565 2008
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
  • 1955-
  • 1937-
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Brooks, James
  • DeCorse, Christopher R
  • Walton, John
Series statement
School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Anthropology
  • History
  • Methodology
  • Anthropology
  • Methodology
  • History
  • Geschiedschrijving
  • Wetenschappelijke technieken
  • Microgeschiedenis
  • Anthropologie
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Ethnologie
  • Geschichtswissenschaft
  • Methode
Label
Small worlds : method, meaning, and narrative in microhistory, edited by James F. Brooks, Christopher R.N. DeCorse, and John Walton
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-323) and index
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volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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
Control code
173807358
Dimensions
23 cm.
Edition
1st ed.
Extent
x, 332 pages
Isbn
9781930618947
Lccn
2007045247
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations, maps
System control number
(OCoLC)173807358
Label
Small worlds : method, meaning, and narrative in microhistory, edited by James F. Brooks, Christopher R.N. DeCorse, and John Walton
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-323) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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
Control code
173807358
Dimensions
23 cm.
Edition
1st ed.
Extent
x, 332 pages
Isbn
9781930618947
Lccn
2007045247
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations, maps
System control number
(OCoLC)173807358

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