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Dear all - since others have asked here's what I sent direct to James.
I think the classic starting point is
Evans-Pritchard, E.E. 1962. History and Anthropology. In Essays in
Social Anthropology. London: Faber & Faber.
Then, in no particular order
Many articles by Tom McCaskie on Asante
Maurice Bloch 'From Blessing to Violence'
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
there's also
Sahlins and Obeysekere debate about Captain Cook
and Sahlins' Islands in History
Cohn BS. 1987. /An Anthropologist Among the Historians and Other
Essays/. Delhi/Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press
and Dirks his student
For anthropologists in archives I've got something forthcoming:
2012. Anthropology In and Of the Archives*: *Possible Futures and
Contingent Pasts. Archives as Anthropological Surrogates. Annual Reviews
in Anthropology DOI: 10.1146/annurev-anthro-092611-145721
best wishes
davidz
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Google Scholar profile including h-index:
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Oxford's open online anthropology journal: JASO online.
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