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Approaching the Past: Historical Anthropology Through Irish Case Studies

Approaching the Past: Historical Anthropology Through Irish Case Studies

Paperback

Irish History

ISBN10: 0231079214
ISBN13: 9780231079211
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: Dec 22 1992
Pages: 428
Weight: 1.29
Height: 1.12 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.99
Language: English

In recent years the study of history has become a central area of inquiry within anthropology. While classical anthropology focused on the present, current approaches seek to do history by using a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches. Approaching the Past is a highly provocative and original volume that examines the issues, themes, and difficulties emerging out of the new anthropological concern with history.

Anchoring the discussion with a wide range of ethnographic case studies from Ireland, the contributors to this volume establish a sophisticated interdisciplinary dialogue and assess the degree to which anthropological concepts and methodologies can be applied to historical inquiry. With a variety of essays representing sociological, geograhical, and historical perspectives, Approaching the Past is an invaluable

contribution to a discipline that is expanding and reconstituting itself anew.

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