2017/18
28135 - Cultural History
Optional
5.3. Syllabus
1.-Culture: two or three things to know about it. The «invention» of Cultural History.
-Classical Cultural History
-Popular Cultures. The history of everyday life
2.- The construction of a genealogy
-From the basement to the barn. Mindsets: Paris, end of 20th century
-Cultural studies and history from below
-British marxism: Thompson, Hobsbawm, Hill, and Williams
-Microhistory: at ground level
-Other contributions
3.- The theorists of Cultural History. From Buckhardt to Chartier
-The origins: Burckhardt, Huizinga
-In Paris: Bloch, Le Goff, Duby, De Certeau
-Perspectives from Philosophy and Sociology: Foucault and Bourdieu
-The civilization by Norbert Elias
-Peter Burke: from popular culture to cultural hybridism
-Cultures, stories, popular readings: Mandrou, Darnton
-Carlo Ginzburg: biography, readings and transgression
-Roger Chartier: Cultural History of the social sphere
-Natalie Zemon Davis and women’s history
-The New Cultural History and Postmodernism
4.- The territories of Cultural History
-The history of books and Reading
-Sense and Sensibility
-Political cultures, public spaces, public opinion
-Memory, symbols, and History. Pierre Nora and places of memory
-Perceptions and representations
-Cultural mediators. Mass culture
5.- The Cultural History and other academic disciplines. Cultural encounters
6.-Comparative History and Cultural History. International panorama