Chapter 2 The Past in the Present: Actualized History in the Social Construction of Reality

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction: Critical Junctions—Recapturing Anthropology and History 1
5. Chapter 1 Microhistorical Anthropology: Toward a Prospective Perspective 29
6. Chapter 2 The Past in the Present: Actualized History in the Social Construction of Reality 53
7. Chapter 3 Figurations in Historical Anthropology: Two Kinds of Structural Narrative about Long-Duration Provenances of the Holocaust 72
8. Chapter 4 Beyond the Limits of the Visible World: Remapping Historical Anthropology 88
9. Chapter 5 “Bare Legs Like Ice”: Recasting Class for Local/Global Inquiry 109
10. Chapter Six Prefiguring NAFTA The Politics of Land Privatization in Neoliberal Mexico 137
11. Chapter Seven Historical Anthropology through Local-Level Research 152
12. Chapter Eight Anthropology and History Opening Points for a New Synthesis 168
13. Contributors 177
14. Index 180