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Ethnicity in Riposte at a Cricket Match: The Past for the Present

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Michael Roberts
Michael Roberts
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University of Adelaide
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I. Some recent essays on the relationship between history on the one hand and anthropology and/or sociology on the other concentrate on the differences in the material with which the typical practitioner deals and the types of issues likely to be addressed (Thompson 1972, 1976, 1977; Davis 1981). They have tended to compare the perspectives that anthropologists1 and historians bring into their work. And both E. P. Thompson and Natalie Z. Davis advocate increasing mutual borrowing from each discipline: they wish the one discipline to deepen its sensitivity and to avoid the usual pitfalls by drawing on the strengths of the other. Thus, by way of illustration, one finds Thompson arguing that historians tend to be more attentive to the paradoxes and ambivalences of actual men, and that they are attuned to the discipline of context because of this attentiveness to heterogeneity, a strength which sociologists—who, he says, tend to overgeneralise and to swallow heterogeneity through the manufacture of neat typologies—would be well advised to draw upon (1976:387,394).

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Establishing the Cultural Context
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , July 1985 , pp. 401 - 429
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1985

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