(Bibliography to my research grant application for funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Resarch Council of Canada, 2009-12)
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A number of influential works, most in social and economic history, have influenced the methodology of the present research programme. Most of these are associated with ‘world-system theory’ and related movements both antecedent to and contemporaneous with it. They include:
Braudel, Fernand. Civilisation matérielle, économie et capitalisme : XVe-XVIIIe siècle (Paris, 1979).
Lesser, Alexander. “Social Fields and the Evolution of Society,” in Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 17 (1961): 40-48.
Wallerstein, Immanuel. The Modern World-System: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century (New York: Academic Press, 1974).
Clearly, the connection of my own work to these authors is only indirect, since they are focussed on the material history of goods, resources, and their exchange, while I am mostly concerned with the history of ideas. But the guiding insight of these authors is mine as well, namely, that in the end there are no isolated or purely local historical developments, but instead every historical development is “inextricably involved with [others], near and far, in weblike, netlike connections” (Lesser, 1961).
There is also a great deal of theoretical literature, coming from both philosophy and anthropology, that deals with the epistemological and cognitive difficulties of the interpretation and understanding of other cultures, as also the interpretation and understanding of the meaning-bearing actions of other individuals. While my own research is principally historical, these theoretical works have been crucial for my reading of some of the chapters in the history of European encounters with non-European knowledge systems. They include:
Austin, J. L. How to Do Things With Words (Harvard University Press, 1962).
Evans-Pritchard, E. E. Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande (Oxford, 1937).
Geertz, Clifford. The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays (New York: Basic Books, 1973).
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Tambiah, S. J. Magic, Science, Religion, and the Scope of Rationality (Cambridge University Press, 1990).
Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Culture and Value. Ed. Georg Henrik von Wright. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1980).
There are also a number of titles that well exemplify the methods of historical anthropology that I will be employing in some of the components of my research programme. I mention as representative the following works:
Trigger, Bruce. The children of Aataentsic : a History of the Huron People to 1660 (McGill-Queens University Press, 1976).
Wolf, Eric R. Europe and the People Without History (University of California Press, 1982).
For the remaining secondary literature, I provide only an incomplete list, intended principally to familiarize the reader with the sort of scholarly work on which my own research draws.
Atran, Scott. The Cognitive Foundations of Natural History: Towards an Anthropology of Science (Cambridge University Press, 1990).
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Barnes, S. B. “The Comparison of Belief-Systems: Anomaly vs. Falsehood,” in R. Horton and R. Finnegan (Eds.), Modes of Thought (London, 1973), 182-98.
Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge. Nature, Empire, and Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World (Stanford University Press, 2006).
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Gaukroger, Stephen. The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity (1210-1685) (Cambridge, 2006).
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Gliozzi, Giuliano. Adam et le nouveau monde. La naissance de l’anthropologie comme idéologie coloniale: des généalogies bibliques aux théories raciales (1500-1700) (Paris: Théétète, 2000).
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Hamlin, William M. “On Continuities between Skepticism and Early Ethnography; Or, Montaigne's Providential Diversity, in The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 31, No. 2 (Summer, 2000), 361-379.
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