Full Description
The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Human Sciences offers a uniquely comprehensive and global overview of the evolution of ideas, concepts and policies within the human sciences. Drawn from histories of the social and psychological sciences, anthropology, the history and philosophy of science, and the history of ideas, this collection analyses the health and welfare of populations, evidence of the changing nature of our local communities, cities, societies or global movements, and studies the way our humanness or 'human nature' undergoes shifts because of broader technological shifts or patterns of living. This Handbook serves as an authoritative reference to a vast source of representative scholarly work in interdisciplinary fields, a means of understanding patterns of social change and the conduct of institutions, as well as the histories of these 'ways of knowing' probe the contexts, circumstances and conditions which underpin continuity and change in the way we count,analyse and understand ourselves in our different social worlds. It reflects a critical scholarly interest in both traditional and emerging concerns on the relations between the biological and social sciences, and between these and changes and continuities in societies and conducts, as 21st century research moves into new intellectual and geographic territories, more diverse fields and global problematics.
Contents
Section 1 Defining the human sciences.- Critique and the history of theory.- Enlightenment and Modernity.- Self / Personhood.- Conduct.- Intellectual fields: science and culture.- Human sciences and the order of things.- Section 2 Categories in history of human sciences.- Ideas and Politics.- Humanities.- Literary criticism.- Psy-practices.- Cultural and historical geography.- Genealogy/history of the present.- Power and resistance.- Section 3 Contextual factors.- The civilizing process.- Histories of legal theory.- On histories of time.- Culture and Consumption.- History of science/cultural hegemony.- Science and imperialism.- Prejudice in post-colonial Europe.- Post-colonial penalty.- Section 4 Anthropology, ethnography and ethnology.- Habitus: Mauss and Bourdieu.- Human sciences and biology.- Historicity and ethnography in Japan.- Ethnology and psychology.- Histories of anthropology.- East Timor and European Anthropology.- Anthropological history of the early 21st century.- Genealogies of the social sketch.- Section 5 Archaeology and ethnoarchaeology.- History and Indigenous cultural artefacts.- Section 6 Historical Sociology.- History of sociology.- Social histories of knowledge.- Norbert Elias and Marcel Mauss.- History, politics and power.- Sociology of crowds.- The sociology of knowledge.- Knowledge society.- On the appearance of autism.- Section 7 Governing Individuals and Societies.- The State and self-governing individuals.- Globalisation and the individual.- Rationalities of rule.- Sovereignty, and powers of life and death.- Exceptionalism and authoritarianism.- Governing Science.- Section 8 Psychology.- Current debates in the history of psychology.- Community psychology and decolonising practices.- Psychology and science.- Psychopathy.- Psychology and commerce.- White psychology.- Section 9 Psychiatry.- The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5.- Transcultural psychiatry.- Psychotherapy.- Psychoanalysis.- Eugenics and science in Peru.- Therapeutic culture and authenticity.- Section 10 Identity.- Constructing human and social subjects.- Making up people.- Indigeneity.- Childhood and Normality.
