Social Anthropology and Social Science History

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ID7097626
AuthorsDavid I Kertzer (0000-0001-9507-3154, Brown University, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume33
Issue1
Pages1-16
Publication date2009-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Science History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0145-5532 • E-ISSN: 1527-8034
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0145553200010889
PMID26549914
OpenAlexW1992910729
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited59

In the 1970s, when the social science history movement emerged in the United States, leading to the founding of the Social Science History Association, a simultaneous movement arose in which historians looked to cultural anthropology for inspiration. Although both movements involved historians turning to social sciences for theory and method, they reflected very different views of the nature of the historical enterprise. Cultural anthropology, most notably as preached by Clifford Geertz, became a means by which historians could find a theoretical basis in the social sciences for rejecting a scientific paradigm. This article examines this development while also exploring the complex ways cultural anthropology has embraced—and shunned—history in recent years

Aesthetics · Anthropology of art · Applied anthropology · Art history · Cultural anthropology · Epistemology · Historical anthropology · History of anthropology · Movement (music · Social anthropology · Social history (medicine · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · History · Philosophy · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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