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›Forms of Mixing‹: Contemporary History and Sociocultural Anthropology. A Conversation with Debjani Bhattacharyya and Brian Larkin

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  • 2025
Published in:
  • Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History. - 2025, vol. 21 (2024/2025), p. 139-154
Contemporary history and sociocultural anthropology
Interdisciplinarity
Research methods
Archive
Field research
Ethnography
English In the following conversation, historian Nils Güttler and anthropologist Lena Kauf­mann discuss the recent shifts with two go-betweens in history and anthropology: historian Debjani Bhattacharyya and anthropologist Brian Larkin. Bhattacharyya’s research on ecology and law in the Bengal Delta and Larkin’s studies of media infrastructures in Nigeria demonstrate how a combined historical and anthropological lens is essential for understanding complex, multifaceted social and environmental phenomena, particularly in (post)colonial settings. This dialogue is an attempt to reflect on how combined methodologies might offer new insights into the pressing issues of our time such as colonial pasts, environmental questions and climate change, resource extraction and urbanization, infrastructures and global flows of technology and knowledge. What is the value of integrating historical and anthropological perspectives? Where do the boundaries between the two blur, and in what ways can such transgressions be not only beneficial but necessary?
Faculty
Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines
Department
Département des sciences sociales
Language
  • English
Classification
Arts, Human and Social Science
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green
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https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/334076
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