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Cultural history involves the aggregate of past cultural activity, such as ceremony, class in practices, and the interaction with locales. [1] It combines the approaches of anthropology and history to examine popular cultural traditions and cultural interpretations of historical experience.
There is more than a grain of truth in the view that cultural history can be exercised in every field of activity: politics, economics, kinship, gender, religion and all their interlocking and overlapping domains.
- Classical Cultural History
- New Cultural History: Influences and Engagements
- The Practice of Cultural History
- Critical Debates
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
Instances of what could be called cultural history have existed throughout the modern era, but most of these have tended to be rather journalistic accounts of day-to-day curiosities that struck the fancy of various amateur historians. There are also many examples of histories of cultural developments like music, art, literature, and ideas, that cou...
Not only does the so-called new cultural history represent a more thoroughgoing application of anthropological understandings of cultural life, but it does so in a reflexive manner that problematizes the writing of history itself. Indeed, it calls into question at once the subject and the object of knowledge by asserting how deeply mediated all hum...
Some of the earliest and best-known practitioners of new cultural history distinguished themselves through their enthusiastic embrace of anthropological models of culture. A substantial number of such works focus on early modern Europe, thus to some extent extending the preoccupation of the Annales tradition with this period. Key early works in thi...
Most innovative historical approaches generate some degree of controversy, often stemming as much from professional anxieties, political concerns, and generational tensions as from bona fide intellectual differences. Debates that have arisen around new cultural history have nevertheless been particularly frequent and often rather polemical. Some of...
As with any scholarly approach that boasts of being "new" when it bursts onto the scene, new cultural history was fairly well established as one among many ways of thinking about history by the twenty-first century. This is not to say that new cultural historians enjoyed the unanimous esteem of their more traditional colleagues, for the field still...
Arnold, Matthew. Culture and Anarchy. 3d ed. New York, 1882. Burke, Peter. The French Historical Revolution: The Annales School, 1929–89.Stanford, Calif., 1990. Burke, Peter. Varieties of Cultural History.Cambridge, U.K., 1997. Burckhardt, Jacob. Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy. Translated by S. G. C. Middlemore. New York, 1960 (1860). Cha...
Cultural history brings to life a past time and place. In this search, cultural historians study beliefs and ideas, much as intellectual historians do. In addition to the writings of intellectual elites, they consider the notions (sometimes unwritten) of the less privileged and less educated.
Culture, behaviour peculiar to Homo sapiens, together with material objects used as an integral part of this behaviour. Thus, culture includes language, ideas, beliefs, customs, codes, institutions, tools, techniques, works of art, rituals, and ceremonies, among other elements.
cultural anthropology, a major division of anthropology that deals with the study of culture in all of its aspects and that uses the methods, concepts, and data of archaeology, ethnography and ethnology, folklore, and linguistics in its descriptions and analyses of the diverse peoples of the world.
Cultural history is not simply the study of high culture or alternatively of peoples' past rituals. It is best characterised as an approach which considers the domain of representation and the struggle over meaning as the most fruitful areas for the pursuit of historical understanding.
