Pageant of Toys, by Mary Hillier. London: Elek Books, 1965, 155 pp., 50s

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1965 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 964-964
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Cone
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Illustrated Book

This charming, beautifully illustrated book would be enjoyed just as much by the pedaitrician's wife as by the pediatrician. It is one of those books all of us occasionally come across which appeal not only to the nostalgic, sentimeiltal side of our lives but also fill a gap in our knowledge of how and what children did with their playtime in the past. The author shows clearly how important a study of toys would be if we were to try to understand the social history of children.

scholarly journals Revisiting the Past: Material Negotiations between the Classic Maya and an Entombed Sweat Bath at Xultun, Guatemala

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Mary E. Clarke ◽  
Ashley E. Sharpe ◽  
Elizabeth M. Hannigan ◽  
Megan E. Carden ◽  
Gabriella Velásquez Luna ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Classic Maya ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Relational Ontology ◽  
The Past ◽  
Dense Deposit ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Large Material ◽  
Human Actors

Large material accumulations from single events found in the archaeological record are frequently defined as evidence of ritual. They are interpreted as generalized deposit categories that imply rather than infer human motivations. While useful in the initial collection of data, these categories can, over time, become interpretations in and of themselves. The emic motivations behind the formation process of ‘ritual deposits’ ought to be considered using a relational ontology as an approach to understanding how past populations interacted with non-human actors, such as structures and natural features on the landscape. The present study evaluates the assembly and possible function of a dense deposit of artifacts recovered from a Classic period sweat bath at Xultun, Guatemala. Analyses of the various artifact types and human remains in the deposit in relation to what is known of the social history of the sweat bath itself illustrate ontological relationships among offered materials as well as between the offering and the personified place in which it was recovered. We observe that with a better understanding of place, it is possible to evaluate the ritual logic in Classic Maya material negotiations.

The Waswahili: The social history of an ethnic group

Africa ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 426-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Arens
Keyword(s):  
Characteristic Feature ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Social History ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Opening Paragraph

Opening ParagraphDefinitional questions, such as ‘Who are the Waswahili’, posed by Eastman (1971) in this journal, appear to have been of little interest in the past, as many social anthropologists either ignored the problem or assumed that the answers were self-evident. However, those who have confronted this task have shown that simplicity and self-evidence is rarely a characteristic feature of the inquiry. Even classic ethnographic cases of supposed culturally homogeneous and distinct tribal groups are at present being re-examined in light of the renewed interest in this topic (cf. Helm, 1968). Whether or not the Nuer are the Dinka, or vice versa, it has been minimally established that such questions are legitimate and even fruitful in sharpening our analytical approach to subject populations.

Spouses, Siblings and Surnames: Reconstructing Families From Medieval Village Court Rolls

1983 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith M. Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Common People ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Never Married ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
Early Modern Era

Advocates of the “new social history” have buttressed their efforts to recreate the past lives of ordinary people with concepts, models, and quantitative methods taken from the social sciences. These new approaches have allowed scholars to extract vivid and dynamic reconstructions of past human experiences from the dry folios of civil and ecclesiastical registers. Their successes, as exemplified by the many publications of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, have focused largely on the demographic and familial histories of the early modern era. The manipulation of parish listings of baptisms, marriages, and burials is now a fairly precise science that has taught us much (and will doubtless teach us more) about the daily lives of common people and their families in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. But the tracing into the past of the social, familial, and demographic characteristics of the English people need not start abruptly with the auspicious advent of parish registers in 1538. Indeed, we can only hope to trace the origins of fundamental features of Tudor-Stuart life (such as the pronounced tendency towards late marriage and the high incidence of persons who never married) if we develop accurate techniques for analyzing the pre-1500, pre-parish register materials at our disposal. From the perspective of a medievalist, this work is clearly essential; most medieval people, quite simply, were peasants, and we shall better understand the histories of medieval parliaments, towns, and universities when we have successfully uncovered their rural underpinnings.

scholarly journals SEJARAH SOSIAL KOTA BEKASI

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 397
Author(s):  
Adeng Adeng
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Political History ◽  
Military History ◽  
Industrial Area ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Emerging Countries ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

AbstrakKegiatan penelitian dan penulisan sejarah sosial baru dilakukan sekitar tahun 1950-an, baik di negara-negara maju maupun di negara-negara yang sedang berkembang. Di negara-negara yang sedang berkembang seperti Indonesia, kegiatan penelitian dan penulisan Sejarah Sosial masih sedikit dilakukan terutama yang bercorak sejarah sosial daerah. Penelitian dan penulisan sejarah yang sering dilakukan bercorak Sejarah Politik dan Sejarah Militer. Sejarah politik isinya menguraikan tentang pemerintahan kerajaan-kerajaan di Indonesia, pada masa pemerintahan Belanda, dan pendudukan Jepang. Sejarah Militer isinya tentang pertempuran-pertempuran baik melawan agresi Belanda maupun facisme Jepang. Dengan tersusunnya Sejarah Sosial Kota Bekasi diharapkan dapat diperoleh gambaran atau potret seluruh aspek kehidupan sosial daerah Kota Bekasi pada masa kini, dengan latar belakang masa lampau untuk memberikan proyeksi pada masa yang akan datang.  Untuk merekontruksi digunakan metode sejarah yang meliputi empat tahap, yaitu:  heuristik, kritik, interpretasi, dan historiografi. Kota Bekasi sebelumnya sebuah kecamatan dari Kabupaten Bekasi. Pada tahun 1982 Kecamatan Bekasi ditingkatkan statusnya menjadi kota administrasi. Pada tahun 1996 kembali ditingkatkan statusnya menjadi kotamadya. Dalam perkembangannya Kota Bekasi menjadi kawasan industri dan kawasan tempat tinggal kaum urban. Kota yang berada dalam lingkungan megapolitan ini merupakan salah satu kota besar urutan keempat di Indonesia yang terdapat di Provinsi Jawa Barat. AbstractThe Research and writing of the new social history made around the 1950s, both in developed countries and in emerging countries. In countries like Indonesia as one of the emerging countries, research and writing of Social History is few, especially about the history of social region.  Research and writing of history is often done patterned with Political History or Military History. The contents of Political history usually outlining with the era of kingdoms, and the governments in Indonesia at the time of Dutch and Japanese occupation.  The contents of Military History usually discussed the battles either against the aggression of the Dutch and Japanese fascism.  With the completion of the Social History of Bekasi City, hopefully it can get a photograph all aspects of the social life of the city of at present, with a background in the past to provide projections of future.  This research used historical method which includes four phases: heuristic, criticism, interpretation, and historiography.  In the past Bekasi well known as sub-district of Bekasi District. In 1982 the sub-district of Bekasi upgraded to municipality or administration city. Bekasi become a city in 1996.  In their development, Bekasi become a central of industrial area and as residence of urban society. The town is located in a megapolitan city of Jakarta, and one of the biggest cities in in the province of West Java.

From Calabar to Carter's Grove: The History of a Virginia Slave Community. By Lorena S. Walsh. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2001. Pp. xxii, 335. $18.95, paper.

2001 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 1140-1141
Author(s):  
Peter A. Coclanis
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Social History ◽  
American History ◽  
Demographic History ◽  
African American History ◽  
Agricultural History ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

Over the past quarter century, no scholar has done more to document the social history of the colonial Chesapeake than Lorena Walsh. In so doing, she has made important scholarly contributions in a variety of areas, most notably, in agricultural history, demographic history, African American history, and women's history. Along with such scholars as Lois Green Carr, Allan Kulikoff, Darrett and Anita Rutman, and Russell Menard among others in the so-called Chesapeake School, Walsh has helped to create a powerful framework for understanding the evolution of Virginia and Maryland and for interpreting the behavior of the populations residing therein. Two of the hallmarks of the work of scholars associated with the “School” are innovative methodologies and meticulous, painstaking research, both of which characteristics are readily apparent in the volume under review.

A Promising Liaison? Social History and Anthropology in South-Eastern Europe. Opportunities and Pitfalls

2008 ◽  
Vol 34-35 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 161-184
Author(s):  
Ulf Brunnbauer
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Historical Anthropology ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Fixed Set ◽  
History Of ◽  
South Eastern Europe

This article argues that historical anthropology provides approaches for the exploration of previously neglected problems of the history of Southeastern Europe. Historical anthropology is not seen as a fixed set of methodologies and theories but rather as a perspective which directs attention to the questions of how societies have worked in the past and “ordinary” people made sense of their lives. Furthermore, historical anthropology tends to be comparative. In the past, Southeastern European historians concentrated on political history and ethnographers on the “traditional” culture of their nation, with little interaction between the two disciplines. After the fall of the communist system in 1989/1991, however, historians and ethnologists borrowed approaches from each other. The potential of historical anthropology is shown in particular with respect to the study of the social fabric of socialism—a topic until now shunned by historians while anthropologists have provided exemplary studies on this issue. The article ends with a discussion of the limits oPf historical anthropology and warns not to leave the state and economic structures out of historical analysis.

The Social Class of the Cappadocian Fathers

1973 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 453-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Kopecek
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Social History ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Class Membership ◽  
The Past ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cappadocian Fathers

Although the past two decades have shown signs of scholarly interest in the social history of fourth- and fifth-century Christianity, especially among British scholars, much remains to be done before a synthetic reconstruction will be justified. Among the tasks to be completed is the determination of the social class backgrounds of the later empire's Christian clergy. For if these backgrounds can be established, it will be possible to investigate how extensively they influenced the clerics' thought and action. Unfortunately, the determination of social origins in antiquity is not always a straightforward enterprise. This is particularly true in the case of the Cappadocian Fathers, whose social class membership is the topic of the present essay.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Brian C. Odom
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Social History ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Long Civil Rights Movement

This introductory chapter provides an overall introduction for the volume and its collection of diverse essays intended to promote a deeper, interdisciplinary exploration of the social history of NASA during the age of Apollo, developed around the ideas advocated by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall in her 2005 essay, “The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past,” which called upon historians to place civil rights movement histories “in the context of a longer story,” one that would make that history “harder to simplify, appropriate, and contain.” The introduction concludes with a call for further research on the topic.

scholarly journals Kontinuitas dan Transformasi Penistaan Agama: Gerakan Sosial Islam Pra-Kemerdekaan

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 372-394
Author(s):  
Juma Juma
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Social History ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Difference

This research analyses the blasphemy the authors of Djawi Hisworo, Swara Oemoem and Madjalah Bangoen have done by observing the social history of Islam. Emile Durkheim's concept of mechanic solidarity is used to describe the blasphemy based on the spirit of religion. Where, the reli­gion (Islam) has become a bond between followers, even though it has different traditions and habits. The social psychology approach to des­cribes organizations or elites advises on have succeeded in mobilizing people to protest against religious politicians. Blasphemy, both past and today, makes people united under the issues of religion. The difference is that in the past, the “blasphemy voice” is more congregation, while today, blasphemy is more politically-pragmatic in the interests of electoral poli­tics. The solidarity which was formed from blasphemy of religion later be­comes the congregation (Islam), whereas today, it forms solidarity based on political sectarian.Keyword: Newspapers, Blasphemy, Solidarity, Religion-Political Rela­tionsPenelitian ini mengkaji penistaan agama yang dilakukan oleh penulis Djawi Hisworo, Swara Oemoem dan Madjalah Bangoen dengan pen­dekatan sejarah sosial umat Islam. Teori solidaritas mekanik Emile Dur­khe­im digunakan untuk menganalisis protes atas penistaan berbasis se­mangat agama. Di mana, agama (Islam) telah menjadi unsur pengikat antara pengikutnya, walau pun memiliki tradisi dan kebiasaan yang ber­beda-beda. Pendekatan psikologi sosial untuk melihat organisasi atau elit yang menggerakkan umat menyuarakan protes terhadap penista agama. Penistaan agama, baik masa lalu atau masa kini sama-sama membuat umat bersatu di bawah isu agama. Perbedaannya, di masa lalu, “suara penistaan agama” lebih bersifat keummatan, sementara hari ini, penistaan agama lebih bernuansa politis-pragmatis demi kepentingan politik elektoral. Soli­daritas yang terbentuk dari penistaan agama di masa lalu bersifat keum­matan (Islam), sedangkan hari ini, berupa solidaritas berbasis politik sek­tarian. Kata Kunci: Surat Kabar, Penistaan Agama, Solidaritas, Relasi Agama-Politik

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