Golden Ages, Dark Ages: Imagining the past in Anthropology and History
David I. Kertzer|Jay O'Brien|William Roseberry
In Golden Dark Ages, a dozen well-known anthropologists and historians bring an exciting new perspective to the task of imagining past, while actively challenging premises traditional historical approach. The authors clarify important misapprehensions that have hindered both anthropologists, who tend regard certain social formsgender, ethnicity, household, community in particularas fixed points departure rather than as changing results political processes. Tradition itself, subject many essays, cannot be tied oppositional models favored by theorists establishing sequence: vs. modern, primitive civilized, etc. Where some views history would lead us expect one increasingly homogeneous world, we find worlds social, economic, cultural difference.
Journal of Interdisciplinary History