Historical anthropology
A historiographical movement applying anthropology to historical societies.
Historical anthropology borrows tools from social and cultural anthropology to examine past societies, though scholars define it variously, sometimes equating it with microhistory, cultural history, or history from below. It grew from the Annales school, counting Fernand Braudel, Jacques Le Goff, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, and Pierre Nora among its key figures, with recent promotion by Jean-Claude Schmitt.
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