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Cultural history (from the German term Kulturgeschichte), at least in its common definition since the 1970s, often combines the approaches of anthropology and history to look at popular cultural traditions and cultural interpretations of historical experience. It overlaps in its approaches with the French movements of histoire des mentalités (Philippe Poirrier, 2004) and the so-called new history, and in the U.S. it is closely associated with the field of American studies.
Most often the focus is on phenomena shared by non-elite groups in a society, such as: carnival, festival, and public rituals; performance traditions of tale, epic, and other verbal forms; cultural evolutions in human relations (ideas, sciences, arts, techniques); and cultural expressions of social movements such as nationalism. Also examines main historical concepts as power, ideology, class, culture, identity, attitude, race, perception and new historical methods as narration of body. Many studies consider adaptations of traditional culture to mass media (tv, radio, newspapers, magazines, posters, etc.), from print to film and, now, to the Internet (culture of capitalism). Its modern approaches come from art history, annales, marxist school, microhistory and new cultural history.
Common theoretical touchstones for recent cultural history have included: Jürgen Habermas's formulation of the public sphere in The Structural Transformation of the Bourgeois Public Sphere; Clifford Geertz's notion of 'thick description' (expounded in, for example, The Interpretation of Cultures); and the idea of memory as a cultural-historical category, as discussed in Paul Connerton's How Societies Remember.
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preparing a lesson to teach 4 HAVO students, and a lesson about cultural history (dance, arts, theater)
Tanitakoelewijn (Tanita Koelewijn) Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:13:16 -0000
preparing a lesson to teach 4 HAVO students, and a lesson about cultural history (dance, arts, theater)
India carries a rich #cultural legacy which can be visible here: http://www.mapsofindia.com/history/ #india
mapsofindia (MapsofIndia) Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:55:40 -0000
India carries a rich #cultural legacy which can be visible here: http://www.mapsofindia.com/history/ #india
RT @travel_book: Stockholm: A Cultural History (Cityscapes) - by Tony Griffiths - Oxford University Press, USA. http://tinyurl.com/yk8mt48
netviagens (Netviagens) Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:20:16 -0000
RT @travel_book: Stockholm: A Cultural History (Cityscapes) - by Tony Griffiths - Oxford University Press, USA. http://tinyurl.com/yk8mt48
Stockholm: A Cultural History (Cityscapes) - by Tony Griffiths - Oxford University Press, USA. http://tinyurl.com/yk8mt48
travel_book (New Travel Books) Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:17:15 -0000
Stockholm: A Cultural History (Cityscapes) - by Tony Griffiths - Oxford University Press, USA. http://tinyurl.com/yk8mt48
Vital for any society RT @HouseHistorian: ...and how buildings can help us study cultural, social and political history!
FrancoiseM (Francoise Murat) Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:56:56 -0000
Vital for any society RT @HouseHistorian: ...and how buildings can help us study cultural, social and political history!
Absolutely!! RT @HouseHistorian ...and how buildings can help us study cultural, social and political history!
janetedavis (Janet E Davis) Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:41:45 -0000
Absolutely!! RT @HouseHistorian ...and how buildings can help us study cultural, social and political history!
Electromusications - Gateway to the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System sites and affiliated sites. The history and development of British television presentation (including graphic design, jingles).
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HEL - History of the English Language. Also has a mailing list.
Images from History - Art and archaeological images to illustrate world history
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Legends - Exploring Legends in History, Folklore, Literature, Fiction, and the Arts.
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The Idyllists - A site dedicated to the Group of British Victorian artists known as the Idydllists. The group includes: Fred Walker, John North, George Pinwell, Robert Macbeth and others.
The Spirit of Gardening - The history of gardening.
Weaving: Art and Lore - Examines cross-cultural weaving, cosmic webs, spinning, spindles, fabrics, and ethnic costume; it also explores Grandmother Spider Woman, Rumpelstiltskin, Sleeping Beauty, and other myths and fairytales on weaving from around the world.
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