PRACTICINGHISTORY

New Directions in Historical Writingafter the Linguistic Turn

Edited byGabrielle M. Spiegel

f J Routledgej j j ^ Taylor f* Francis Group

NEW YORK AND LONDON

CONTENTS

Notes on contributors viiSeries editor's preface xiAcknowledgments xiv

Introduction 1GABRIELLE M. SPIEGEL

PARTIDiscourse and the problem of social history 33

1 Is all the world a text? From social history to the history ofsociety two decades later 35GEOFF ELEY

2 The determinist fix: some obstacles to the further developmentof the linguistic approach to history in the 1990s 62GARETH STEDMAN JONES

3 The concept(s) of culture 76WILLIAM H. SEWELL, JR.

PART II

Self and agency 97

4 Agency in the discursive condition 99ELIZABETH DEEDS ERMARTH

5 Individual experience and cultural order 111MARSHALL SAHLINS

6 The constitution of society: outline of the theory ofstructuration: elements of the theory of structuration 121ANTHONY GIDDENS

CONTENTS

7 A theory of structure: duality, agency and transformationWILLIAM H. SEWELL, JR.

8 How to be an intentionalistMARK BEVIR

PART IIIExperience and practice 177

9 Outline of the theory of practice: structures and the habitus 179PIERRE BOURDIEU

10 The evidence of experience 199JOAN SCOTT

11 The practice of everyday life: "making do":uses and tactics 217MICHEL DE CERTEAU

12 Language and the shift from signs to practices incultural inquiry 228RICHARD BIERNACKI

13 Toward a theory of social practices: a developmentin culturalist theorizing 245ANDREAS RECKWITZ

Bibliography 264Index 269

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