Beyond the Cultural Turn

by Bonnell, Victoria E.; Hunt, Lynn Avery; Biernacki, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780520216785
• ISBN10: 0520216784
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

A collection of engaging essays that look specifically at the effect of culturalism on history and sociology and propose new directions in the theory and practice of research.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(34)
Victoria E. Bonnell
Lynn Hunt
PART 1. CULTURE AS CONCEPT AND PRACTICE
The Concept(s) of Culture	35	(27)
William H. Sewell, Jr.
Method and Metaphor after the New Cultural History	62	(33)
Richard Biernacki
PART 2. KNOWLEDGE IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
Science Studies after Social Construction: The Turn Toward the Comparative and the Global	95	(26)
Margaret C. Jacob
The Privatization of Citizenship: How to Unthink a Knowledge Culture	121	(44)
Margaret R. Somers
PART 3. NARRATIVE, DISCOURSE, AND PROBLEMS OF REPRESENTATION
Cultural History and the Challenge of Narrativity	165	(17)
Karen Halttunen
Colonizers, Scholars, and the Creation of Invisible Histories	182	(35)
Steven Feierman
Cultural Analysis and Moral Discourses: Episodes, Continuities, and Transformations	217	(24)
Sonya O. Rose
PART 4. RECONSTRUCTING THE CATEGORIES OF BODY AND SELF
Why All the Fuss about the Body? A Medievalist's Perspective	241	(40)
Caroline Bynum
Problematizing the Self	281	(44)
Jerrold Seigel
Afterword	315	(10)
Hayden White
Notes on Contributors	325	(4)
Index	329