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Problems With Practice

399 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building Princeton

Reconstructing the logic of practices remains a challenge, and not for historians alone. I shall argue that an invocation of the ‘habitus’ as generating practices elides major problems. Without discarding Bourdieu’s contribution, I try to sketch an approach that insists on the role of cultural repertoires providing sets of context-specific models of action. Examples are […]

Reconfiguring Kinship and Knowledge, c.1500

106 McCormick 106 McCormick

Gadi Algazi is a professor of medieval history at Tel Aviv University.  His research focuses on historical anthropology, social-cultural history of the late medieval-early modern period, history of scholarship and colonial history.  

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