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Small Worlds: Method, Meaning, and Narrative in Microhistory

Small Worlds: Method, Meaning, and Narrative in Microhistory

Brooks, James F.
Decorse, Christopher R. N.
Walton, John

Paperback

Series: School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar

General SociologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1930618948
ISBN13: 9781930618947
Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press
Published: May 28 2008
Pages: 346
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Growing unease with grand theories of modernization and global integration brought twelve scholars from four disciplines to the School for Advanced Research for an experiment with the research genre known as microhistory. These authors now call for a return to narrative, detailed analysis on a small scale, and the search for unforeseen meanings embedded in cases. The essential feature of this perspective is a search for significance in the microcosm, the large lessons discovered in small worlds. Urging the recognition of potential commonalities among archaeology, history, sociology, and anthropology, the authors propose that historical interpretation should move freely across disciplines, historical study should be held up to the present, and individual lives should be understood as the intersection of biography and history. The authors develop these themes in a kaleidoscope of places and periods--West Africa, the Yucatan peninsula, Italy, Argentina, California, Brazil, Virginia, and Boston, among others. They illuminate discrete places, people, and processes through which both the intimacy of lived experience and the more distant forces that shaped their days can be viewed simultaneously.

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