IV. The Various Media of Historical Narratives (Jan. 30)


Topics: The extension and function of "history,""event," "memory," and "narrative" onto a variety of media and socio-political arenas, including landscape and architecture, production and consumption, exchange, rituals, pilgrimage, calendars, heirlooms, etc., as well as the more obvious pictorial histories and genealogies.

D Richards, Audrey I.
1960 Social Mechanisms for the Transfer of Political Rights in Some African Tribes. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 90:175-190.

Boone, Elizabeth Hill
2000 History and Historians. Chapter 2 (pp. 13-27) of Stories in Red and Black: Pictorial Histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs. Austin: University of Texas Press.

T Hill, Jonathan D. and Robin M. Wright
1988 Time, Narrative, and Ritual: Historical Interpretations from an Amazonian Society. Chap. 4 in Rethinking History and Myth.

Weiner, Annette B.
1992 Introduction. Inalienable Possessions: The Paradox of Keeping-While-Giving. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 1-19 (plus map)

Morphy, Howard
1995 Landscape and the Reproduction of the Ancestral Past. In The Anthropology of Landscape: Perspectives on Place and Space, ed. by Eric Hirsch and Michael O'Hanlon, pp. 184-209. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Gillespie, Susan D.
1999 A Clash of Temporalities: The Aztec Conquest as a Matter of Time. Paper presented at the 98th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL. 

T Sahlins, Marshall
1990 The Political Economy of Grandeur in Hawaii from 1810 to 1830. Chap. 2 in Culture Through Time

Recommended:

Toren, Christina
1999 Seeing the Ancestral Sites: Transformations in Fijian Notions of the Land. Chap. 3 ofMind, Materiality and History: Explorations in Fijian Ethnography. London: Routledge.

Duncan, James S.
1990  The City as Text: The Politics of Landscape Interpretation in the Kandyan Kingdom.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  [cultural geographer]