Article ID: CBB000953764

Forests of Citation: Concluding Unauthorized Postscript to Figured Fragments of Bernard S. Cohn's “History and Anthropology: The State of Play” (2009)

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This text represents an exploration of the possible significance of Bernard S. Cohn's 1980 essay, `History and Anthropology: The State of Play', for understanding the present of historical anthropology and its futures. My discussion has two aims: (1) to reflect on both Bernard S. Cohn's pedagogy and mode of inquiry; and (2) to explore the complexity and nuance of citationality as a generative principle within the constitution of historical anthropology's subject. Toward this, I examine Cohn's notion of `the colonial situation' and reflect on how the emergence of the human sciences is intertwined with the proliferation of colonialism's enduring legacy within postcoloniality.

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Description “Reflects on [Cohn's notion of] how the emergence of the human sciences is intertwined with the proliferation of colonialism's enduring legacy within postcoloniality.” (from the abstract)


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Authors & Contributors
Solovey, Mark
Delille, Emmanuel
Anderson, Warwick H.
Arnold, David J.
Fabrizio Li Vigni
Bortolini, Matteo
Concepts
Science and society
Social sciences
Postcolonialism
Human sciences
Cultural anthropology
Anthropology and historical methods
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
20th century, early
Modern
Places
United States
France
Nigeria
Americas
Switzerland
Russia
Institutions
Santa Fe Institute
Mass-Observation
UNESCO
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
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