Between history and histories the making of silences and commemorations

"Since the 1980s historians have been influenced by two anthropological concepts: cultural distance and awareness of small-scale interactions. Recent work, however, has shifted away from these notions. We now see that cultures cannot be studied as units with internal coherence and that the micr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Sider, Gerald M. (-), Smith, Gavin A.
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press c1997.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Anthropological horizons ; 11.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b30971251*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Gerald Sider, Gavin Smith
  • Silencing the past : layers of meaning in the Haitian revolution / Michel-Rolph Trouillot
  • Against experience : the struggles for history, tradition, and hope among a native American people / Gerald Sider
  • Pandora's history : central Peruvian peasants and the re-covering of the past / Gavin Smith
  • Renaissance and Kaliyuga : time, myth, and history in colonial Bengal / Sumit Sarkar
  • The 'day of national mourning' in Germany / Karin Hausen
  • Histories of mourning : flowers and stones for the war dead, confusion for the living
  • vignettes from East and West Germany / Alf Lüdtke
  • Silences of the living, orations of the dead : the struggle in Kenya for S.M. Otieno's body, 20 December 1986 to 23 May 1987 / David William Cohen, E.S. Atieno Odhiambo
  • Lords ask, peasants answer : making traditions in late-medieval village assemblies / Gadi Algazi
  • From peasant wars to urban 'wars' : the anti-Mafia movement in Palermo / Jane Schneider, Peter Schneider
  • Work and the production of silence / Louise Lamphere
  • The so-called Laichingen hunger chronicle : an example of the fiction of the factual, the traps of evidence, and the possibilities of proof in the writing of history / Hans Medick
  • Further thoughts on.
  • the production of history / David William Cohen.