Reconstructing Culture in Historical Explanation
Narratives as Cultural Structure and Practice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4496017 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anne Kane (The University of Texas at Austin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 311-330 |
| Publication date | 2000-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History and Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2656 • E-ISSN: 1468-2303 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/0018-2656.00133 |
| OpenAlex | W2015469046 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
The problem of how to access and deploy the explanatory power of culture in historical accounts has long remained vexing. A recent approach, combining and transcending the "culture as structure"/"culture as practice" divide among social historians, puts explanatory focus on the recursivity of meaning, agency, and structure in historical transformation. This article argues that meaning construction is at the nexus of culture, social structure, and social action, and must be the explicit target of investigation into the cultural dimension of historical explanation. Through an empirical analysis of political alliance during the Irish Land War, 1879-1882, I demonstrate that historians can uncover meaning construction by analyzing the symbolic structures and practices of narrative discourse
Action (physics · Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Alliance · Epistemology · Explanatory power · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Narrative · Nexus (standard · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of culture · Structure and agency · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
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| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,96 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2025 (25) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |