Monday, March 28, 2005

Humming right Along

Okay, I have read the Cohn article, and linked it to the work of Clifford Geertz, Robert Darnton, and Nicholas Dirks. This is pretty much what a "Historiographical Essay" is; you show how a bunch of historians influenced each other. The scholar might point out that Bernard Cohn and Clifford Geertz are not historians; they're anthropologists. However, Geertz's book "Negara: The Theatre State In Nineteenth-Century Bali" is ethnohistory, and actually Cohn's article is too. Besides, History borrows from everybody. That's why we're always a bit behind the curve.

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