Historical Anthropology Discussions (7)

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Understanding the Haitian Revolution. Many people are aware of the phrase that opens the 1776 declaration of independence by the American colonists against British rule: We hol… Started by Huon Wardle	24	Dec 15, 2011 Reply by Huon Wardle
Historical Ethnography: Methodology I'm involved in a project looking at early exchanges between European voyagers and Polynesian islanders in the Pacific, 1765-1840. What met… Started by Amiria Salmond	7	Aug 19, 2011 Reply by Philipp Hesser
Favorite Works Any favorite works? I will start with two of mine Eric Wolf, Europe and the People without History (Berkeley: University of California Pre… Started by RA Kashani	11	Aug 16, 2010 Reply by Joshua Smith
Software for historical demography/kinship relations? Hi all, I am doing some work on historical documents and I am looking around for an appropriate application to create a genealogical databa… Started by Aris Anagnostopoulos	0	May 2, 2010
Early maps and the construction of knowledge about the Americas. This map published in 1630, shows a version of the state of knowledge of the Americas at that time. From the 1500s onwards maps become one… Started by Huon Wardle	0	Nov 3, 2009
anthropology and history of past and present In anthropology we have no archives but only information given by living people. In history we have archives written by some scholars of th… Started by NIKOS GOUSGOUNIS	54	Sep 22, 2009 Reply by Huon Wardle
Hidden Histories In a forum discussion on "Small Studies and Large Conversations," John McCreery quotes Mary Douglas, "A gap in historical knowledge, even a… Started by Philip Carl SALZMAN	7	Sep 13, 2009 Reply by Huon Wardle