Multiple Histories

Three Journeys through Academic Records, Medieval Yemen, and Current Anthropology's Encounters with the Past

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2156352
AutoresAndre Gingrich (0000-0003-2922-0552, Schlumberger (Ireland), autor correspondente)
Ano2015
Volume26
Fascículo1
Páginas110-128
Data de publicação2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHistory and Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0275-7206 • E-ISSN: 1477-2612
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02757206.2014.933102
OpenAlexW2028503511
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas24
Referências citadas40

This chapter sets out to reconsider the interrelation and non-identity between tribal and kinship relations in South-Western Arabia's history through three cumulative methodological steps that are in part inspired by renewed debates on kinship in anthropology, but also by the École des Annales and other historians such as David Sabaean. A first step identifies different legacies of interactions between history and anthropology in the Euro-American academic record after 1945, and specifies their relevance for today. In a next step, prevailing relations between tribal structures and kinship relations will be assessed through a long-distance comparison between the medieval constellations in the Zaydi highlands of Yemen and elsewhere in Asia for an eleventh century time horizon. Thirdly, the outcome of this comparative analysis should then provide some indicators for a fresh assessment of existing source materials through anthropological perspectives, with special emphasis on gender, kinship and hierarchies. The argument concludes with a discussion of "multiple histories", and how to approach and write them

Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · Eleventh · Ethnology · Fictive kinship · Genealogy · Identity (music · Kinship · Political science · Relevance (law · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law