Autobiography of an Archive: A Scholar's Passage to India

by Nicholas B. Dirks

Book Overview

The decades between 1970 and the end of the twentieth century saw the disciplines of history and anthropology draw closer together, with historians paying more attention to social and cultural factors and the significance of everyday experience in the study of the past. The people, rather than elite actors, became the focus of their inquiry, and anthropological insights into agriculture, kinship, ritual, and folk customs enabled historians to develop...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231169671
• ISBN13: 9780231169677
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher