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Private Lives, Public Histories

An Ethnohistory of the Intimate Past
Buch | Softcover
196 Seiten
2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-0430-9 (ISBN)
CHF 59,95 inkl. MwSt
Private Lives, Public Histories explores conceptions of public and private spaces, activities, discourse, and social interactions. Contributors to this edited collection draw on ethnohistorical and material sources to depict history as a lived experience.
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.

Rachel Corr is professor of anthropology at the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University. Jacqueline H. Fewkes is professor of anthropology at the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University.

Introduction: Intimate Interdependencies: Colonization, Capitalism, and Impositions of Public and Private, by Minette Church



Affect and the Memorialization of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: Spontaneous Expressions of Synchronic Global Black Consciousness in the Visitors’ Books at Elmina and Cape Coast Castles-Dungeons, Ghana, by Jean Muteba Rahier
Behind Closed Doors: Rethinking Public and Private in the Ulster Plantation, by Audrey Horning
“Bible, Bath and Broom:” Constructing Race Womanhood in The Chicago Defender, by Anna S. Agbe-Davies
The Warmth of the Hearth: Andean Domestic Life among Colonial Textile Mill Workers, by Rachel Corr
Friends of the Family: Gender, Kinship, and Elite Colonial Networks in Early 20th Century North India, by Jacqueline H. Fewkes
Gendering Cosmopolitanism: Intersectional Visibility in Taiwan’s Colonial Public Spheres, by Melissa J. Brown
Public, Private, and the Politics of Information in Late Colonial Gambia, by Niklas Hultin

Conclusion: Reading the Intimate Past, by Jacqueline H. Fewkes and Rachel Corr

Index

About the Editors and Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum
Co-Autor Anna S. Agbe-Davies, Melissa J. Brown, Minette C. Church
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 154 x 230 mm
Gewicht 318 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Empirische Sozialforschung
ISBN-10 1-7936-0430-4 / 1793604304
ISBN-13 978-1-7936-0430-9 / 9781793604309
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