SYLLABUS

Selected Readings in Western Socio-Cultural History:

Micro and Macro: Local History and Its Future (Fall 2012)

Instructor: Prof. Liu Yonghua

Part I. The Rise of Local History

01. H. P. R. Finberg & V. H. T. Skipp. Local History: Objective and Pursuit. Augustus M. Kelley, 1967. Chapter 1.

02. Pierre Goubert. “Local History”; Lawrence Stone. “English and United States Local History.” In Felix Gilbert and Stephen R. Graubard, eds., Historical Studies Today, New York: W. W. Norton, 1972, pp. 300-314, 315-336.

Part II. Leicester School and Microhistory

03. Charles Phythian-Adams. Re-thinking English Local History. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1987. Chapter 1-2.

04. Charles Phythian-Adams. Re-thinking English Local History. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1987. Chapter 3-5.

05. Giovanni Levi. “On Microhistory.” In Peter Burke, ed., New Perspectives on Historical Writing, University Park, Penn.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991, pp. 93-113.

06. Carlo Ginzburg. “Microhistory: Two or Three Things That I Know about It.” Critical Inquiry 20.1 (Autumn, 1993), pp. 10-35.

Part III. Perspectives from Anthropology, Archaeology, and Sociology

07. Billie R. DeWalt and Pertti J. Pelto.“Microlevel/Macrolevel Linkages: An Introduction to the Issues and a Framework for Analysis.” In Billie R. DeWalt and Pertti J. Pelto, eds., Micro and Macro Levels of Analysis in Anthropology, Boulder: Westview Press, 1985, pp. 1-21.

08. Marianne Gullestad. “Small Facts and Large Issues: The Anthropology of Contemporary Scandinavian Society.” Annual Review of Anthropology 18 (1989), pp. 71-93.

09. George E. Marcus. “Ethnography in/of the World System: The Emergence of Multi-Sited Ethnography.” Annual Review of Anthropology 24 (1995), pp. 95-117.

10. M. Kearney. “The Local and the Global: The Anthropology of Globalization and Transnationalism.” Annual Review of Anthropology 24 (1995), pp. 547-565.

11. Mary Beaudry. “‘Above Vulgar Economy’: The Intersection of Historical Archaeology and Microhistory in Writing Archaeological Biographies of Two New England Merchants.” In James E. Brooks, Christopher R. N. DeCorse, and John Walton, eds., Small Worlds: Method, Meaing, & Narrative in Microhistory, Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press, 2008, pp. 173-198.

12. Kent G. Lightfoot. “Oral Traditions and Material Things: Constructing Histories of Native People in Colonial Settings.” In James E. Brooks, Christopher R. N. DeCorse, and John Walton, eds., Small Worlds: Method, Meaing, & Narrative in Microhistory, Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press, 2008, pp. 265-288.

13. Alan C. Kerckhoff. “Creating Inequality in the Schools: A Structural Perspective.” In Joan Huber, ed., Macro-Micro Linkages in Sociology, Newbury Park: Sage Publications, 1991, pp. 153-169.