Beyond the cultural turn : new directions in the study of society and culture

Biernacki, Richard, 1956- (author.). Bonnell, Victoria E., (editor.). Bynum, Caroline, (author.). Feierman, Steven, (author.). Halttunen, Karen, 1951- (author.). Hunt, Lynn, 1945- (editor.). Jacob, Margaret C., (author.). Rose, Sonya O., (author.). Seigel, Jerrold, (author.). Sewell, William H., Jr., 1940- (author.). Somers, Margaret R., (author.).

Summary: The editors provide an introduction analyzing the origins and implications of the cultural turn and its postmodernist critiques of knowledge. Essays by leading historians and historical sociologists reflect on the uses of cultural theories and show both their promise and their limitations. The afterword by Hayden White provides an assessment of the trend toward culturalism by one its most influential proponents.

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ISBN: 9780520922167
ISBN: 9780520216792
ISBN: 9780520216785
ISBN: 0520922166
ISBN: 0520216792
ISBN: 0520216784
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 350 pages)
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Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, �1999.

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General Note:	CatMonthString:may.23 Multi-User. Papers presented at a conference held Apr. 26-27, 1996 in California.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction / Victoria E. Bonnell and Lynn Hunt -- pt. 1. Culture as Concept and Practice. 1. The Concept(s) of Culture / William H. Sewell, Jr. 2. Method and Metaphor after the New Cultural History / Richard Biernacki -- pt. 2. Knowledge in the Social Sciences. 3. Science Studies after Social Construction: The Turn toward the Comparative and the Global / Margaret C. Jacob. 4. The Privatization of Citizenship: How to Unthink a Knowledge Culture / Margaret R. Somers -- pt. 3. Narrative, Discourse, and Problems of Representation. 5. Cultural History and the Challenge of Narrativity / Karen Halttunen. 6. Colonizers, Scholars, and the Creation of Invisible Histories / Steven Feierman. 7. Cultural Analysis and Moral Discourses: Episodes, Continuities, and Transformations / Sonya O. Rose -- pt. 4. Reconstructing the Categories of Body and Self. 8. Why All the Fuss about the Body? A Medievalist's Perspective / Caroline Bynum. 9. Problematizing the Self / Jerrold Seigel -- Afterword / Hayden White.
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Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.
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