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Dear Everyone,

Wow, thanks for the fantastic responses! I really appreciate the time everyone took to reply to my query.

Many more people responded personally than on the list. Since there were several requests to share the results, and the responses seem to have stopped trickling in, I am pasting below my compilation of the reading suggestions. Sorry, it is not formatted, just cut and paste in the form in which people sent it. I have tried to order it alphabetically.

Once again, thanks so much for all the responses and enthusiasm.
jamie



Biblio


Amin, Shahid. 'Event, Metaphor and Memory'

Bear, L. Lines of the Nation is a good combination of ethnographic and archival material, looking at railway colonies and families of railway officers in colonial and contemporary India.

Bozic-Vrbancic, S. 2007. 'Tarara, Croats and Maori in New Zealand: memory, belonging, identity'

Bannerjee, Mukulika. 'Pathan Unarmed'.

Bloch, M. Blessing to Violence

Borofsky, R. 'Making History'.

Carrier, Achsah H. and James G. Carrier 1991. Structure and Process in a Melanesian Society: Ponam's Progress in the Twentieth Century. London: Harwood Academic.

Carrier, James G. and A. H. Carrier 1989. Wage, Trade and Exchange in Melanesia: A Manus Society in the Modern State. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Cohen, A. 1965. Arab border-villages in Israel, Manchester, Manchester University Press.

Cohn BS. 1987. An Anthropologist Among the Historians and Other Essays. Delhi/Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press

Comaroff J, Comaroff J. 1991. Of Revelation and Revolution. Volume 1: Christianity, Colonialism and Consciousness in South Africa. Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press

Comaroff J, Comaroff J. 1992. Ethnography and the Historical Imagination. Oxford: Westview

Derrida's Archive Fever

Donham, D. Marxist Modern<http://books.google.com.mx/books/about/Marxist_Modern.html?id=JF0DhTe0YaoC&redir_esc=y>,

Edwards, E. on the photographic archive might have some good insights specifically 'Raw Histories'

Evans-Pritchard, E.E. 1962. History and Anthropology. In Essays in Social Anthropology. London: Faber & Faber.

Fabian's Time and the Other (ethnography is a way of making objects, not of describing ready-made objects. The temporality is not only "out there" but also in the subjectivity that writes a particular ethnography

Ferguson, J. Expectations of Modernity

Foster, Robert J. 1995. Social Reproduction and History in Melanesia: Mortuary Ritual, Gift-Exchange, and Custom in the Tanga Islands. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Discusses the second Carrier reference, above)

Grandits, Hannes. & Taylor, Karin. 2010. Yugoslavia's sunny side. Central European University Press

Hahn, Chris. including: "Not the Horse We Wanted!": Postsocialism, Neoliberalism, and Eurasia (Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia) (Volume 10)

Hodges, M. 2010. "The time of the interval: Historicity, modernity, and epoch in rural France." American Anthropologist. 37 (1): 115-131

Isaacman's Historical Amnesia (a journal article; points at the *class* difference in memory and historicity.)

Moore, Henrietta L. and and M.A. Vaughan (1994) Cutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition and Change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890-1990. New York: Heinemann.<http://www.henriettalmoore.com/2010/01/moore-henrietta-l-and-and-m-a-vaughan-1994-cutting-down-trees-gender-nutrition-and-change-in-the-northern-province-of-zambia-1890-1990-new-york-heinemann-and-london-james-currey/>

McCaskie, T. on Asante

Meenakshie, Verma. Aftermath: An Oral History of Violence (2004, Penguin).

Muehlfried, F., Sokolovsky, S. 2012. "Exploring the Edge of Empire. Soviet Era Anthropology in the Caucasus and Central Asia" Vienna. Lit Verlag.

Narotzky & Smith. 2006. Immediate Struggles: People, Power and Place in Rural Spain. California University Press.

O'Connor, K. Lycra: How A Fiber Shaped America  (Routledge 2011).

Platt, T. Archive as Field Event in the new Sage Companion to Social Anthropology (2012, Vol.II)

Pratten, D. The Man Leopard Murders (2007)

Rogers, Douglas. Old Believers in the Urals<http://www.ssrc.org/publications/view/381045DA-7F42-DF11-9D32-001CC477EC70/>

Sahlins and Obeysekere debate about Captain Cook

Sahlins' Islands in History

Shelton, A. Dreamworlds of Alabama

Steedman, C. Dust

Stoler, Along the Archival Grain.

Ssorin-Chaikov, Nikolai. The Social Life of the State in Subarctic Siberia, and it is a historical ethnography of one Eveniki group and state institutions throughout the 20th century.

Taussig, M. (Walter Benjamin's grave, for instance)

Weston, Kath -- ongoing work.

Wolf, E.R. 1982. Europe and the people without history. Berkeley: University of California Press.


More general observaions:

1. debates in Southern and Central Africa, which have since the 1960s spoken to the centrality of historical accounts of change.  Articles by BErnard Magubane, Archie Mafeje, Andrew Spiegel, Rob GOrdon, Monica and Godfrey Wilson, Zolane Ngwane might help to situate this.


2. There was a whole tradition of Eastern European ethnologies until 1990s which almost solely relied on diachronic perspective. A good overview of this approach can be found in a PhD thesis:


Michael Sozan. 1977. The History of Hungarian Ethnography, Washington, D.C.: University Press of America


3. useful to look at ethnographic works on historical heritage sites, where the authors explore the way certain readings and uses of history are politically constructed today (Sharon MacDonald about the Holocaust sites in Germany, Christoph Brumann about Japan, and Michael Herzfeld about Crete, Thailand and Rome)...


4. You mention 'writing in the ethnographic present'. The Soviet Abkhazian anthropologist Shalva Inal-ipa devised 'writing in the ethnographic past' to circumvent Soviet official restrictions on acknowledging the continued existence of  what were officially deemed to be outdated and harmful practices (customary), by describing them in detail but having to say they were dying out or had died out. Inal-ipa's research into archives is exemplary and has withstood the test of time. A good example of his work is, I think:


Inal-ipa, Sh. 2011 [1965] "Voprosy etno-kulturnoy istorii abkhazov". [Matters of Ethnic and Cultural History of the Abkhazians]. Sukhum. Abkhazian Academy of Sciences.




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