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, 2018 Microhistory is a rather ambiguous term, usually referring to the lives, activities, and cultural values of common people, rarely evoked in official sources. In the case of ancient Egypt, both the urban and village spheres provide some clues about the existence, social relations, spiritual expectations, and life conditions of farmers, craftspersons ...
Moreno García, Juan Carlos
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Is There a Future for Italian Microhistory in the Age of Global History? [PDF]
California Italian Studies, 2011 At first sight, global history and microhistory have little in common, and this essay takes stock of where their methods and goals diverge. But in the past two decades a host of scholars have written microhistorically-inflected studies of men and women ...
Francesca Trivellato
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Anxious Projections: Mass Hysteria and the Problem of Interpretation. [PDF]
Med Anthropol QAbstract Stories of “mass hysteria” among teenage girls have often graced the headlines of Nepal's local and national newspapers, creating a public spectacle of a strange and mysterious form of affliction. Treatments include both shamanic rituals and psychosocial interventions, a new therapeutic modality that has gained prominence over the past two ...
Seale-Feldman A.
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Microhistory as historiographical tool [PDF]
The paper presents a type of historiography that emerged in the 1970s under the name of “microhistory”. The first part deals with three classics, namely Ginzburg's The Cheese and the Worms (1976), Levi's Inherited Power (1985), both examples of the ...
Mülberger, Annette; id_orcid
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, 2022 1 online resource (219 pages)Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-219).In this dissertation I explore the potential of creative synthesis within the debate of method in management and organizational history by developing an ...
Deal, Nicholous M.
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Mobile Culture Studies. The Journal, 2021 My contribution aims to enrich the debate about the relationship between migrant worlds and material cultures by the analysis of a specifical, yet apparently anonymous object: a tennis racket. This object has been part of the life of Carlo U., born and
Oppizzi, Martino
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Re/Deconstructing voices of (female) translators: The case of Bolesława Kopelówna (1897-1961)
Stridon, 2022 The article presents the life and work of Bolesława Kopelówna, a Polish literary translator who was especially active (and widely criticised) in the interwar years in Poland, and is now almost completely forgotten.
Joanna Sobesto
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La dictadura y la música popular en Chile: los primeros años de plomo
Resonancias, 2019 This study examines the impact of the repressive regime of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) upon the artists and the cultural life of Chile, particularly the musicians who were part of the Chilean New Song movement, in the first years of the dictatorship ...
J. Patrice McSherry
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Who Tells Your Story? Microhistory and Historical Biography [PDF]
, 2023 The historical method of microhistory is a small discipline that is often disputed on whether autobiography and biography are forms of microhistory; using the life of Father Richard T.
Emery, Stellarose B.
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How to use microhistory methodology in mental health research
, 2023 Incorporating anthropological principles, microhistory is a research methodology useful for exploring the interplay between ordinary people and social abstractions such as, the market, social systems, and governments.
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