Golden ages, dark ages : imagining the past in anthropology and history / edited by Jay O'Brien and William Roseberry.

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1991], ©1991.

x, 288 pages ; 24 cm

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Blackwell N.A

Potatoes, sacks, and enclosures in early modern England / William Roseberry -- Reimagining the oikos : Austrian cameralism in its social formation / Hermann Rebel -- Re-creating peasant economy in southern Peru / Michael Painter -- Custom and wage conflict : problems of periodization and chronology in northern Nigerian labor history / Louise D. Lennihan -- Toward a reconstitution of ethnicity : capitalist expansion and cultural dynamics in Sudan / Jay O'Brien -- The Orientalist paradigm in the historiography of the late precolonial Sudan / Jay Spaulding, Lidwien Kapteijns -- Popular memory and the Palestinian national past / Ted Swedenburg -- The production of culture in local rebellion / Gavin Smith -- House and history at the margins of life : domination, domesticity, ethnicity, and the construction of ethnohistories in "The land God gave to Cain" / Gerald M. Sider -- Habits of the cumbered heart : ethnic community and women's culture as American invented traditions / Micaela di Leonardo

Includes bibliographic references (p. 253-282) and index