Critical Junctions

Critical JunctionsThe cultural turn has been a multifarious and pervasive phenomenon in Western universities and modes of social knowledge since the early 1980s. This volume focuses on the conjunction of two disciplines where both the analytic promises as well as the difficulties involved in the meeting of humanist and social science approaches soon became obvious. Anthropologists and historians have come together here in order to recapture, elaborate, and criticize

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and now embraces three dozen societies

The chapters in turn show different ways of writing transnational comparative history

or to genetic platforms shared with contemporary apes

and memory in shaping identities in the “postcolonial” landscape of Taiwan

and artifacts convey an unmatched sense of Paleoindian life

Philip feels drawn to the community

As she signs over control of her fortune to Craddock

Viewing the Jains within a South Asian context results in a strikingly different portrait from the standard models represented in both traditional Western and Indian scholarship

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and social factors that have shaped the country's development

Their difficult paths