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Private Lives, Public Histories
An Ethnohistory of the Intimate Past
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2020
Summary
Private Lives, Public Histories brings together diverse methods from archaeology and cultural anthropology, enabling us to glean rare information on private lives from the historical record. The chapters span geographic areas to present recent ethnohistorical research that advances our knowledge of the connections between the public and private domains and the significance of these connections for understanding the past as a lived experience, both historically and in a contemporary sense. We discuss how the use of different sources—e.g., public records, personal journals, material culture, the built environment, letters, public performances, etc.—can reveal different types of information about past cultural contexts, as well as private sentiments about official culture and society. Through an exploration of sites as varied as homes, factories, plantations, markets, and tourism attractions we address the public significance of private sentiments, the resilience of bodies, and gendered interactions in historical contexts. In doing so, this book highlights linkages between private lives and public settings that have allowed people to continue to exist within, adapt to, and/or resist dominant cultural narratives.
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Copyright year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-0428-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-0429-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
184
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Preface No access
Introduction Intimate Interdependencies No access Pages 1 - 18
Chapter One Affect and the Memorialization of the Transatlantic Slave Trade No access Pages 19 - 42
Chapter Two Behind Closed Doors No access Pages 43 - 64
Chapter Three “Bible, Bath, and Broom” No access Pages 65 - 84
Chapter Four The Warmth of the Hearth No access Pages 85 - 102
Chapter Five Friends of the Family No access Pages 103 - 122
Chapter Six Gendering Cosmopolitanism No access Pages 123 - 144
Chapter Seven Public, Private, and the Politics of Information in Late Colonial Gambia No access Pages 145 - 164
Conclusion Reading the Intimate Past No access Pages 165 - 176
