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What Is Cultural History?

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ISBN-10: 0745644104

ISBN-13: 9780745644103

Edition: 2nd 2008

Authors: Peter Burke

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List price: $19.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 9/2/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Great Tradition
Classic Cultural History
Culture and Society
The Discovery of the People
Problems of Cultural History
The Classics Revisited
Marxist Debates
The Paradoxes of Tradition
Popular Culture in Question
What is Culture?
The Moment of Historical Anthropology
The Expansion of Culture
The Moment of Historical Anthropology
Under the Microscope
Postcolonialism and Feminism
A New Paradigm?
Four Theorists
Practices
Representations
Material Culture
The History of the Body
From Representation to Construction
The Rise of Constructivism
New Constructions
Performances and Occasions
Deconstruction
Beyond the Cultural Turn?
Burckhardt's Return
Politics, Violence and Emotions
The Revenge of Social History
Frontiers and Encounters
Narrative in Cultural History
Conclusion
Afterword: Cultural History in the Twenty-First Century
A changing scene
Cultural History and its Neighbours
Culture in Question
Notes
Select Publications: A Chronological List
Further Reading
Index