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  • Richard N. Frye 1920-2014

  • Richard W. Bulliet
  • Journal:
    Review of Middle East Studies / Volume 48 / Issue 1-2 / 2014
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    09 March 2016, pp. 132-133
    Print publication:
    2014
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  • 9 - Annales and archaeology

  • Edited by A. Bernard Knapp
  • Book:
    Archaeology, <I>Annales</I>, and Ethnohistory
    Published online:
    04 August 2010
    Print publication:
    16 April 1992, pp 131-134

  • Summary

    The potential significance of the Annales school of history for archaeologists depends upon what is understood by “the Annales school of history.” As the relentless accumulation of human knowledge and the passage of time have conspired to break the totality of human understanding into discrete disciplines, subdisciplines, and specializations, so-called “interdisciplinary” adventures have become challenging, and sometimes seem heroic. The risk for appropriators of ideas and approaches originating in disciplines other than their own is that they will not properly understand them, or may wilfully misunderstand them, and thus will misapply them in a way that exposes the appropriators to criticism or ridicule. Social Darwinism is an apt example of such misapplied interdisciplinary appropriation. Yet how deeply must a scholar be steeped in the donor discipline to minimize the risk of such criticism? And, more to the point, if the conceptual borrowing proves of value for the receiving discipline, does this value outweigh the possible defect of the idea not being accurately and fully understood?

    In consideration of these possible concerns, several propositions can be put forward regarding the papers contained in this book and their implications for archaeology:

    First, the authors of the papers do not all understand the Annales school in the same way. Consequently, they apply significantly different insights deriving from their differing understandings.

    Second, the Annales school itself does not have sufficient coherence and self-understanding to make appropriating ideas from it an easy or straightforward task.…

  • 5 - Pottery styles and social status in medieval Khurasan

  • Edited by A. Bernard Knapp
  • Book:
    Archaeology, <I>Annales</I>, and Ethnohistory
    Published online:
    04 August 2010
    Print publication:
    16 April 1992, pp 75-82

  • Summary

    The growth of cities in the early Islamic period stimulated many new designs of glazed pottery. One major production area was Khurasan – northeast Iran and adjacent parts of Afghanistan and Central Asia. The chronology and variety of pottery styles mirrors the chronology of conversion and the resultant emergence of political-religious factions. On this basis it is argued that factional differences carried social and aesthetic overtones. This study exemplifies the Annales technique of wedding material culture to other areas of historical enquiry.

    Introduction

    What the Annales school of historiography means to historians often differs from what it means to archaeologists. At least that is my perception as a historian who has published in Annales: Economies, Societes, Civilisations. For archaeologists, one attraction of the Annales approach may be that it provides a set of hypotheses, or at least rubrics, which enable them to integrate some of their data into a historical framework that is meaningful both to them and to a broader audience.

    As a historian, however, I see the Annales approach less as a set of ideas than as a revolution in the concept of historical data. Nineteenth-century historiography was broad enough to encompass the precise attentiveness to documents of Leopold von Ranke's disciples, the hazy spiritualism of historians influenced by Georg Friedrich Hegel, and the attempts at scientific analysis of the Marxists. Yet there was comparatively little breadth in defining historical data. Some historians favored government documents and diplomatic correspondence.

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