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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.
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.
What exactly is culture? The authors of this volume suggest that
the study of one of anthropology's central questions may be a route
to developing a scientific paradigm for the field. The contributors
- prominent scholars in anthropology, biology, and economics -
approach culture from very different theoretical and methodological
perspectives, through studies grounded in fieldwork, surveys,
demography, and other empirical data. From humans to chimpanzees,
from Taiwan to New Guinea, from cannibalism to marriage patterns,
this volume directly addresses the challenges of explaining culture
scientifically. The evolutionary paradigm lends itself particularly
well to the question of culture; in these essays, different modes
of inheritance - genetic, cultural, ecological, and structural -
illustrate evolutionary patterns in a variety of settings.
Explaining Culture Scientifically is divided into parts that
address how to think about culture, modeling approaches to cultural
influences on behavior, ethnographic case studies addressing the
question of culture's influence on behavior, and challenges to the
possibility of a scientific approach to culture. It is necessary
reading for scholars and students in anthropology and related
disciplines.
The "one China" policy officially supported by the People's
Republic of China, the United States, and other countries asserts
that there is only one China and Taiwan is a part of it. The debate
over whether the people of Taiwan are Chinese or independently
Taiwanese is, Melissa J. Brown argues, a matter of identity: Han
ethnic identity, Chinese national identity, and the relationship of
both of these to the new Taiwanese identity forged in the 1990s. In
a unique comparison of ethnographic and historical case studies
drawn from both Taiwan and China, Brown's book shows how identity
is shaped by social experience - not culture and ancestry, as is
commonly claimed in political rhetoric.
What exactly is culture? The authors of this volume suggest that
the study of one of anthropology's central questions may be a route
to developing a scientific paradigm for the field. The contributors
- prominent scholars in anthropology, biology, and economics -
approach culture from very different theoretical and methodological
perspectives, through studies grounded in fieldwork, surveys,
demography, and other empirical data. From humans to chimpanzees,
from Taiwan to New Guinea, from cannibalism to marriage patterns,
this volume directly addresses the challenges of explaining culture
scientifically. The evolutionary paradigm lends itself particularly
well to the question of culture; in these essays, different modes
of inheritance - genetic, cultural, ecological, and structural -
illustrate evolutionary patterns in a variety of settings.
Explaining Culture Scientifically is divided into parts that
address how to think about culture, modeling approaches to cultural
influences on behavior, ethnographic case studies addressing the
question of culture's influence on behavior, and challenges to the
possibility of a scientific approach to culture. It is necessary
reading for scholars and students in anthropology and related
disciplines.
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