"Historical anthropology is a historiographical movement which applies methodologies and objectives from social and cultural anthropology to the study of historical societies."
Historical anthropology studies human societies and cultures using anthropological methods and theory over time, including the use of historical documents and archival research.
"...may be synonymous with the history of mentalities, cultural history, ethnohistory, microhistory, history from below or Alltagsgeschichte."
"Anthropologists whose work has been particularly inspirational to historical anthropology include Emile Durkheim, Clifford Geertz, Arnold van Gennep, Jack Goody, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, Marcel Mauss and Victor Turner."
"Burke has contrasted historical anthropology with social history, finding that historical anthropology tends to focus on qualitative rather than quantitative data, smaller communities, and symbolic aspects of culture."
"Reflects a turn in 1960s Marxist historiography away from 'the orthodox Marxist approach to human behaviour in which actors are seen as motivated in the first instance by economics, and only secondarily by culture or ideology.'"
"Historical anthropology was rooted in the Annales school, associated with a succession of major historians such as Fernand Braudel, Jacques Le Goff, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie and Pierre Nora."
"Established in 1929 by Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre, the journal Annales. Histoire, Sciences sociales is still among the most influential French publications for research in historical anthropology."
"'...studies in which societies were represented in this way were often partial, biased, and unwitting handmaidens to the domination of non-Western peoples by Europeans and Americans.'"
"But since the Second World War, increasingly reflexive approaches have led to sophisticated developments of the field..."
"Key figures have been Sidney Mintz, Jay O'Brien, William Roseberry, Marshall Sahlins, Jane Schneider, Peter Schneider, Eric Wolf, Peter Burke..."
"...people from elsewhere in the world such as Aaron Gurevich."
"...focus on qualitative rather than quantitative data."
"...symbolic aspects of culture."
"Actors are seen as motivated in the first instance by economics, and only secondarily by culture or ideology."
"Historical anthropology tends to focus on...smaller communities."
"...may be synonymous with the history of mentalities."
"...partial, biased, and unwitting handmaidens to the domination of non-Western peoples by Europeans and Americans."
"Researchers from elsewhere in Europe such as Carlo Ginzburg."
"Label historical anthropology has been actively promoted by some recent Annales school historians."
"...cultural history, ethnohistory, microhistory, history from below or Alltagsgeschichte." Quote selection: - "Historical anthropology is a historiographical movement which applies methodologies and objectives from social and cultural anthropology to the study of historical societies." - "Anthropologists whose work has been particularly inspirational to historical anthropology include Emile Durkheim, Clifford Geertz, Arnold van Gennep, Jack Goody, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, Marcel Mauss and Victor Turner." - "Burke has contrasted historical anthropology with social history, finding that historical anthropology tends to focus on qualitative rather than quantitative data, smaller communities, and symbolic aspects of culture." - "Reflects a turn in 1960s Marxist historiography away from 'the orthodox Marxist approach to human behaviour in which actors are seen as motivated in the first instance by economics, and only secondarily by culture or ideology.'" - "Historical anthropology was rooted in the Annales school, associated with a succession of major historians such as Fernand Braudel, Jacques Le Goff, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie and Pierre Nora." - "Established in 1929 by Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre, the journal Annales. Histoire, Sciences sociales is still among the most influential French publications for research in historical anthropology." - "'...studies in which societies were represented in this way were often partial, biased, and unwitting handmaidens to the domination of non-Western peoples by Europeans and Americans.'" - "But since the Second World War, increasingly reflexive approaches have led to sophisticated developments of the field..." - "Key figures have been Sidney Mintz, Jay O'Brien, William Roseberry, Marshall Sahlins, Jane Schneider, Peter Schneider, Eric Wolf, Peter Burke..." - "...people from elsewhere in the world such as Aaron Gurevich." - "...focus on qualitative rather than quantitative data." - "...symbolic aspects of culture." - "Actors are seen as motivated in the first instance by economics, and only secondarily by culture or ideology." - "Historical anthropology tends to focus on...smaller communities." - "...may be synonymous with the history of mentalities." - "...partial, biased, and unwitting handmaidens to the domination of non-Western peoples by Europeans and Americans." - "Researchers from elsewhere in Europe such as Carlo Ginzburg." - "Label historical anthropology has been actively promoted by some recent Annales school historians." - "...cultural history, ethnohistory, microhistory, history from below or Alltagsgeschichte."