Histories of anthropology

Timothy H. H. Thoresen, ed. Toward A Science of Man: Essays in the History of Anthropology. The Hague and Paris: Mouton Publishers, 1975. Distributed in North America by Aldine Publishing Company, vii + 232 pp. Biographical notes and indices. $14.95.     

Futures for Feminist Histories

Books reviewed in this article: Gerda Lerner, Why History Matters: Life and Thought Barbara Laslett, Ruth-Ellen B. Joeres, Mary Jo Maynes, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and Jeanne Barker-Nunn (eds), History and Theory: Feminist Research, Debates, Contestations Joan Wallach Scott (ed.), Feminism and History     

Histories of analytic political philosophy

This paper sets out an agenda for the study of the history of analytic and post-analytic political philosophy. It builds on a growing literature on the history of analytic philosophy to make three main suggestions. First, analytic philosophy arose as part of a wider shift from the developmental historicism of the nineteenth century to more modernist modes of knowledge. Second, analytic philosophy included a wide range of approaches to moral and political issues, many of which reflected distinctive concepts of analysis, logic, and science. Third, analytic philosophy only became widespread when the work of Quine and Wittgenstein moved it in a more post-analytic direction. Crucially, the move toward post-analytic philosophy inspired people to rediscover and reinvent other traditions, including liberal humanism, democratic republicanism, virtue ethics, and historicism. The resulting history provides a fluid and diverse understanding of arguably the most powerful philosophical movement of the twentieth century.     

Visual Histories and Photographic Evidence

Over the last decade, historical research into photography in the Pacific has grown and diversified, yet an enormous amount of visual material remains untapped, new approaches and questions await exploration, and most historians still neglect critical engagement with visual evidence. This article, in summarising developments in the historical research of photography both generally and in the Pacific, identifies directions in recent work, and argues that closer links between visual history and Pacific History promise revisions and new vistas of Pacific pasts.     

"跨区域研究"的区域社会史--"区域社会史比较研究"中青年学者学术讨论会综述

2004年8月16日至18日,由中国人民大学清史研究所、山西大学中国社会史研究中心共同举办的“区域社会史比较研究”中青年学者学术讨论会在山西大学召开。包括中国、英国、加拿大以及香港和台湾地区的20余名学者参加了会议,共提交论文26篇。会议期间与会学者进行了广泛的学科对话,展开了热烈的学术讨论与争鸣。20世纪90年代,区域社会史逐渐成为中国社会史研究的一个潮流,形成了“百花齐放,百家争鸣”的局面。如何跨越各自研究的区域,进行比较研究,开展研究理论、方法的对话与交流,并在此基础上进行深刻的理论反思,从而进一步推进中国社会史研…