The State of Ethnohistory

Krech, Shepard

doi:10.1146/annurev.an.20.100191.002021

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“…Como hemos visto, ya desde los años setenta y de manera acusada desde los ochenta, mientras disciplinas como la ciencia política y la sociología se inclinaban hacia las teorías de la acción racional, la antropología y la historia fueron más sensibles al culturalismo y al post-estrucutralismo (Adams, Clemens, Orlof, 2005: 12, 39). Incluso la sociología histórica se acabaría aproximando más a la antropología cultural y la historia social, como demuestran los trabajos de Sewell (Work and Revolution in France, 1980) y Calhoun (The question of class struggle, 1982) (Steinmetz, 2005: 143), o el desarrollo que durante esas mismas décadas alcanzó la "etnohistoria" (Krech, 1991).…”

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Sociología e Historia: un diálogo en el cambio de siglo

Latorre

Romero

2018

Política Soc.

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Resumen. En este artículo revisaremos la relación entre la sociología y la historia hasta la consolidación del subcampo de la sociología histórica durante la década de los setenta del pasado siglo. Veremos qué temas y problemas teóricos y metodológicos ha afrontado desde entonces y en qué contexto fueron planteados. Por último, se reflexiona sobre la vigencia de la agenda clásica de la sociología histórica (la formación histórica de los Estados nacionales, los procesos de modernización y desarrollo capitalista o las revoluciones sociales) en el actual contexto social y político, para concluir sobre cómo, paradójicamente, ante una idea de modernidad cuestionada, la mirada de la sociología histórica puede volver a girarse hacia modelos de la sociología clásica.

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Sociología e Historia: un diálogo en el cambio de siglo

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Romero

2018

Política Soc.

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“…Since the demise of functionalism, history and anthropology have been combined in many different formulations, beginning with the humanist view of Evans-Pritchard (1961), which contended that these two disciplines shared a common methodology, namely that of understanding others' views of the world whether separated in space or in time; Ortner's (1984) consideration of culture as always changing through the force of human agency and thus a crucible of historical process; and the endeavor to historicize indigenous peoples such as the Native American Mashpee so that they could represent themselves in land claims cases, which spawned the field of ethnohistory (Krech 1991, Harkin 2010. In much of this literature, anthropologists have supplied histories according to the conventions and interrogatives of Western historiography.…”

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Historicity and Anthropology

Stewart

2016

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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Historicity has emerged within anthropology to refer to cultural perceptions of the past. It calls attention to the techniques such as rituals that people use to learn about the past, the principles that guide them, and the performances and genres in which information about the past can be presented. The concept is in essential tension with the meaning of the term as "factuality" within the discipline of history and in wider society. Anthropologists also sometimes compose histories within this Western paradigm, but historicity in anthropology orientates a different objective, namely to discover the ways (beyond Western historicism) in which people, whether within or outside the West, construe and represent the past. Historicity, which is grounded in a notion of temporality, offers a framework for approaching time as nonlinear and may thus be suited to studying other histories without fundamentally measuring how well they conform to Western history.

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“…More recently, see discussion in Michaud (2010). 27 For reviews, see Krech (1991) and Harkin (2010). A journal, Ethnohistory, has been in print since 1954.…”

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Hanging Out in International Politics: Two Kinds of Explanatory Political Ethnography for IR

MacKay

Levin

2015

Int Stud Rev

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The use of ethnographic methods is on the rise in International Relations. However, research in this area has largely been constrained to critical or interpretive analysis of nontraditional objects of study. This has been driven in part by two practical problems that limit ethnographic analysis: that of aggregation, as international phenomena are necessarily large in scale, and that of access, as institutional settings are often closed or secretive. While we commend critical and nontraditional research for driving much‐needed expansion of the disciplinary agenda, we offer a complementary account, arguing that scholars can also use ethnographic methods in explanatory research. To do so, we draw on two methodological literatures in anthropology. The first approximates ethnographic research through historical immersion. The second applies ethnographic methods at multiple research sites, tracking transnational phenomena across them. The paper sketches prospective studies of each kind, concerning the creation and implementation of the United Nations. While neither method is entirely new to IR, the methodological literatures in question have yet to receive systematic treatment in the field.

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The State of Ethnohistory

Cited by 77 publications

References 268 publications

Sociología e Historia: un diálogo en el cambio de siglo

Sociología e Historia: un diálogo en el cambio de siglo

Historicity and Anthropology

Hanging Out in International Politics: Two Kinds of Explanatory Political Ethnography for IR

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