Small Worlds

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Pub. Date: 2008-06-30
Publisher(s): School for Advanced Research/Sar pr
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Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables
Introductionp. 3
Microhistory: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Concerns
Lived Hegemonies and Biographical Fragments: Microsteps toward a Counterhistory of the Spanish Transition from Dictatorship to Democracyp. 15
The Hidden Weight of the Past: A Microhistory of a Failed Social Movement Groupp. 37
To Write Liberation: Time, History, and Hope in Yucatanp. 53
Varied Pasts: History, Oral Tradition, and Archaeology on the Mina Coastp. 77
Shifting Lenses, Embedded Scales: Event, Biography, and Landscape
Arson, Social Control, and Popular Justice in the American West: The Uses of Microhistoryp. 97
The Floating Island: Anachronism and Paradox in the Lost Colonyp. 121
Biography as Microhistory, Photography as Microhistory: Documentary Photographer Dorothea Lange as Subject and Agent of Microhistoryp. 145
"Above Vulgar Economy": The Intersection of Historical Archaeology and Microhistory in Writing Archaeological Biographies of Two New England Merchantsp. 173
What Influences Official Information? Exploring Aggregate Microhistories of the Catasto of 1427p. 199
Anomalies, Clues, and Neglected Transcripts: Microhistory and Representations of the Cuban Sugar Frontier, 1820-1860p. 225
Seductions and Betrayals: La frontera gauchesque, Argentine Nationalism, and the Predicaments of Hybridityp. 247
Oral Traditions and Material Things: Constructing Histories of Native People in Colonial Settingsp. 265
Referencesp. 289
Indexp. 325
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