Critical Junctions

Don Kalb is Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Central European University, Budapest, and Senior Researcher at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. His books include Expanding Class: Power and Everyday Politics in Industrial Communities, The Netherlands, 1850-1950 (Duke University Press 1997); The Ends of Globalization. Bringing Society back in, (ed., Rowman and Littlefield 2000); Globalization and Development: Key Issues and Debates (ed., Kluwer Academic 2004); Headlines of Nation, Subtext of Class: Working Class Populism and the Return of the Repressed in Neoliberal Europe (co-ed (with Gábor Halmai), Berghahn Books 2011). He is the founding editor of Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology.

• PrefaceIntroduction: Critical Junctions—Recapturing Anthropology and HistoryDon Kalb and Herman Tak 1Chapter 1. Microhistorical Anthropology: Toward a Prospective PerspectiveDon HandelmanChapter 2. The Past in the Present: Actualized History in the Social Construction of RealityChristian GiordanoChapter 3. Figurations in Historical Anthropology: Two Kinds of Structural Narrative about Long-Duration Provenances of the HolocaustHermann RebelChapter 4. Beyond the Limits of the Visible World: Remapping Historical AnthropologyAugust CarbonellaChapter 5. “Bare Legs Like Ice”: Recasting Class for Local/Global InquiryDon KalbChapter 6. Prefiguring NAFTA: The Politics of Land Privatization in Neoliberal MexicoPatricia MusanteChapter 7. Historical Anthropology through Local-Level ResearchMarilyn Silverman and P. H. GulliverChapter 8. Anthropology and History: Opening Points for a New SynthesisGerald SiderNotes on ContributorsIndex

“The editors stake out an appealing middle ground that builds on the expanded notion of class that the cultural turn itself advance against a narrow economism of an earlier generation. Second, the volume reminds us of the legacy of anthropology to historical thinking.”  ·   Journal of Social History“… highly provocative and, for an edited book, unusually even…Whether moved to agreement or to dissent, the reader will learn much from this timely collection.”  ·  Focaal