Cultural history. (2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Anna Green.
• Other Names: Green, Anna, 1950-
• Contents: Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Defining 'culture'; Human subjectivity; Holistic approach; Interpretive methodology; Conclusion; 1 Zeitgeist and Hermeneutics; Jacob Burckhardt (1818-97); Zeitgeist; Representation, pessimism and the 'ironic vision'; Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911); Understanding (Verstehen); Hermeneutics; Conclusion; 2 Mentalités and the Unconscious; Definitions of Mentalité; Collective consciousness; The constraints of outillage mental; Subsequent generations of Annales historians; Critiques; Psychoanalysis; Key concepts; The unconscious The interaction between the psychosexual and the psychosocialFantasy and the unconscious; The limitations of the psychoanalytic approach; Conclusion; 3 From Agency to Symbols; Marxism; Hegemony and the Subaltern; Cultural Marxism; Experience and agency; Critiques; Technological determinism; Symbolic anthropology; Thick description; Symbolic behaviour and figurative language; Conclusion; 4 Semiotics and Discourse; Key transformative influences; Linguistic structuralism; Language as dialogic heteroglossia; The influence of linguistic structuralism and semiotics; Michel Foucault (1926-84) DiscourseKnowledge/Power; Deconstruction; Orientalism; Gender; Conclusion; 5 Remembering; Memory; Early theorists of remembering; Critiques; Subjectivity; Narrative structure and 'composure'; Myths and legends; Cultural scripts and discourse; Trauma and remembering; Conclusion; 6 Collective Memory; The 'memory boom'; Memory; Collective memory; Identity and heritage; 'Imagined communities' and invented traditions; 'The language of mourning'; 'Memory-makers'; 'Memory consumers'; Conclusion; Conclusion; Further Reading; Glossary; Notes; Index
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 163 pages)
• Subjects: 306.09; Study & Teaching; History -- Methodology; History -- Philosophy; Culture -- History; Culture; History -- Methodology; History -- Philosophy; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; General; History: theory & methods; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137039156; 1137039159
• Related ISBNs: 9780333986745; 0333986741; 033398675X; 9780333986752
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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