Häftad, Engelska, 2022

Private Lives, Public Histories

An Ethnohistory of the Intimate Past

Av Rachel Corr, Jacqueline Fewkes

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Private Lives, Public Histories brings together diverse methods from archaeology and cultural anthropology, enabling us to glean rare information on private lives from the historical record. The chapters span geographic areas to present recent ethnohistorical research that advances our knowledge of the connections between the public and private domains and the significance of these connections for understanding the past as a lived experience, both historically and in a contemporary sense. We discuss how the use of different sources—e.g., public records, personal journals, material culture, the built environment, letters, public performances, etc.—can reveal different types of information about past cultural contexts, as well as private sentiments about official culture and society. Through an exploration of sites as varied as homes, factories, plantations, markets, and tourism attractions we address the public significance of private sentiments, the resilience of bodies, and gendered interactions in historical contexts. In doing so, this book highlights linkages between private lives and public settings that have allowed people to continue to exist within, adapt to, and/or resist dominant cultural narratives.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2022-05-11
Mått: 154 x 230 x 12 mm
Vikt: 318 g
Format: Häftad
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 196
Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN: 9781793604309

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Rachel Corr is professor of anthropology at the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University.Jacqueline H. Fewkes is professor of anthropology at the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University.

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Resulting from a 2018 panel held for the American Anthropological Association, this collection presents seven case studies from different geographical loci spanning five continents. The editors and contributors (trained as cultural anthropologists or archaeologists) have gleaned information from public domains to shed light on the private lives of women who lived or worked in diverse settings (homes, factories, plantations, or markets). The authors employ methods primarily from ethnohistory (and sometimes ethnology and archaeology) to assess such sources as public records, personal journals, correspondence, public performances, material culture, and the built environment, extracting information about the blurred dichotomy of public/private lives. Although the women subjects came from varied backgrounds (including enslaved persons, textile mill workers, tea processors, and British colonialists in South Asia), by focusing on the concept of agency, these studies document the private/public connections across colonial and capitalist contexts, such as the slave trade diaspora and cultural/ethnic heritages. Exposing elitism, sexism, racism, and inequality, the contributions illustrate how friendships and marriages transcendedethnic, class, economic, and religious boundaries. These thoughtful essays inform readers about potentially flawed assumptions of a presumed public/private divide and the relationships between personal and civic ideologies. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals.

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