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100			_aComaroff, John L.
245			_aEthnography and the historical imagination
260			_bRoutledge, _c2018 _aLondon :
300			_axiv, 337 p. ; _c23 cm
365			_b41.99 _c£ _d118.80
490			_aStudies in the ethnographic imagination
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aOver the years John and Jean Comaroff have broadened the study of culture and society with their reflections on power and meaning. In their work on Africa and colonialism they have explored some of the fundamental questions of social science, delving into the nature of history and human agency, culture and consciousness, ritual and representation. How are human differences, constructed and institutionalized, transformed and (sometimes) effaced, empowered and (sometimes) resisted? How do local cultures articulate with global forms? How is the power of some people over others built, sustained, eroded, and negated? How does the social imagination take shape in novel yet collectively meaningful ways? Addressing' these questions, the essays in this volume--several never before published--work towards an "imaginative sociology," demonstrating the techniques by which social science may capture the contexts that human beings construct and inhabit. In the introduction, the authors offer their most complete statement to date on the nature of historical anthropology. Standing apart from the traditional disciplines of social history and modernist social science, their work is dedicated to discovering how human worlds are made, and signified, forgotten and remade.
650			_aEthnology Methodology
650			_aEthnology Philosophy
650			_aAnthropology
700			_aComaroff, Jean
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