The Historic Turn in the Human Sciences

Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1(16) Terrence J. McDonald Part 1. Historic Encounters Is Vice Versa? Historical Anthropologies and Anthropological Histories 17(36) Nicholas B. Dirks Where Is Sociology after the Historic Turn? Knowledge Cultures, Narrativity, and Historical Epistemologies 53(38) Margaret R. Somers What We Talk about When We Talk about History: The Conversations of History and Sociology 91(28) Terrence J. McDonald Science, Non-Science, and Politics 119(42) Rogers M. Smith Discursive Forums, Cultural Practices: History and Anthropology in Literary Studies 161(32) Steven Mullaney Part 2. Making Histories Is All the World a Text? From Social History to the History of Society Two Decades Later 193(52) Geoff Eley Three Temporalities: Toward an Eventful Sociology 245(36) William H. Sewell Jr. Resistance and the Problem of Ethnographic Refusal 281(24) Sherry B. Ortner The Rise and Domestication of Historical Sociology 305(34) Craig Calhoun The Past as Authority and as Social Critic: Stabilizing and Destabilizing Functions of History in Legal Argument 339(40) Robert W. Gordon The Evidence of Experience 379(28) Joan Wallach Scott Contributors 407(4) Index 411