In this volume, Anna Green provides a coherent and accessible introduction to the major theories and areas of enquiry in this most diverse of historical fields. Cultural History explores the conceptual, affective and imaginative worlds of human consciousness, as reflected in elite intellectual and aesthetic works, as well as everyday social beliefs and practices. Anna Green provides a coherent and accessible introduction to the major theoretical approaches and key concepts within this most diverse of historical fields. 'Cultural History' explores the conceptual, affective and imaginative worlds of human consciousness, as reflected in elite intellectual works as well as everyday social beliefs and practices. Preface
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Introduction
1(1)
Defining `culture'
1(3)
Human subjectivity
4(2)
Holistic approach
6(3)
Interpretive methodology
9(1)
Conclusion
10(1)
Zeitgeist and Hermeneutics
11(16)
Jacob Burckhardt (1818--97)
12(3)
Zeitgeist
15(2)
Representation, pessimism and the `ironic vision'
17(1)
Wilhelm Dilthey (1833--1911)
18(2)
Understanding (Verstehen)
20(2)
Hermeneutics
22(2)
Conclusion
24(3)
Mentalites and the Unconscious
27(18)
Definitions of Mentalite
28(1)
Collective consciousness
29(2)
The constraints of outillage mental
31(2)
Subsequent generations of Annales historians
33(1)
Critiques
33(1)
Psychoanalysis
34(2)
Key concepts
36(1)
The unconscious
37(3)
The interaction between the psychosexual and the psychosocial
40(1)
Fantasy and the unconscious
41(1)
The limitations of the psychoanalytic approach
42(1)
Conclusion
43(2)
From Agency to Symbols
45(19)
Marxism
46(1)
Hegemony and the Subaltern
47(2)
Cultural Marxism
49(3)
Experience and agency
52(1)
Critiques
53(2)
Technological determinism
55(1)
Symbolic anthropology
56(1)
Thick description
56(2)
Symbolic behaviour and figurative language
58(3)
Conclusion
61(3)
Semiotics and Discourse
64(18)
Key transformative influences
65(2)
Linguistic structuralism
67(1)
Language as dialogic heteroglossia
68(1)
The influence of linguistic structuralism and semiotics
69(2)
Michel Foucault (1926--84)
71(1)
Discourse
72(2)
Knowledge/Power
74(1)
Deconstruction
75(2)
Orientalism
77(1)
Gender
78(3)
Conclusion
81(1)
Remembering
82(17)
Memory
82(2)
Early theorists of remembering
84(4)
Critiques
88(1)
Subjectivity
89(2)
Narrative structure and `composure'
91(3)
Myths and legends
94(1)
Cultural scripts and discourse
95(2)
Trauma and remembering
97(1)
Conclusion
97(2)
Collective Memory
99(18)
The `memory boom'
100(3)
Memory
103(1)
Collective memory
104(2)
Identity and heritage
106(2)
`Imagined communities' and invented traditions
108(3)
`The language of mourning'
111(2)
`Memory-makers'
113(2)
`Memory consumers'
115(1)
Conclusion
116(1)
Conclusion
117(5)
Further Reading
122(6)
Glossary
128(4)
Notes
132(26)
Index
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