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Cultural history combines the approaches of anthropology and history to look at popular cultural traditions and cultural interpretations of historical experience. It examines the records and narrative descriptions of past matter, encompassing the continuum of events (occurring in succession and leading from the past to the present and even into the future) pertaining to a culture.
Cultural history records and interprets past events involving human beings through the social, cultural, and political milieu of or relating to the arts and manners that a group favors. Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897) helped found cultural history as a discipline. Cultural history studies and interprets the record of human societies by denoting the various distinctive ways of living built up by a group of people under consideration. Cultural history involves the aggregate of past cultural activity, such as ceremony, class in practices, and the interaction with locales.
Usage examples of "cultural history".
We shall therefore trace writing's development not only because of its inherent importance, but also for the general insights into cultural history that it provides.
The Internet's evolution mirrors closely the social and cultural history of North America at the end of the 20th century.
The bizarre, irreversible contingencies of natural history and cultural history alike stand out against all endeavors to endow life with meaning, goal, or permanence.
Clearly, entire sections of Leran Manev had become gallery displays of cultural history.
Richardson A cultural history of Tibet, London, 1968 (reprinted Boulder, Colorado 1980).
Especially happy because it was recognized by the university as a scientific approach to cultural history.
Are we any more a-historical than anyone else has been, or is this a particular disjunction in our cultural history where we just no longer care about looking backwards?
Authentic, it had come from the Los Angeles Museum of Cultural History, and the curator had vouched for it being a man's, not a woman's.
And with only the problems of learning several thousand years of cultural history hanging overhead.
A nominally useless planetoid had become home to a sprawling network of interlinked domes and computer systems that formed a central library facility containing the total cultural history and scientific knowledge of all Federation members.