Beyond the cultural turn : new directions in the study of society and culture / edited and with an introduction by Victoria E. Bonnell and Lynn Hunt ; essays by Richard Biernacki [and others] ; with an afterword by Hayden White.

Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, [1999], ©1999.

xi, 350 pages ; 24 cm.

Papers presented at a conference held Apr. 26-27, 1996 in California.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Concept(s) of culture / William H. Sewell, Jr. -- Method and metaphor after the new cultural history / Richard Biernacki -- Science studies after social construction: the turn toward the comparative and the global / Margaret C. Jacob -- The privatization of citizenship: how to unthink a knowledge culture / Margaret R. Somers -- Cultural history and the challenge of narrativity / Karen Halttunen -- Colonizers, scholars, and the creation of invisible histories / Steven Feierman -- Cultural analysis and moral discourses: episodes, continuities, and transformations / Sonya O. Rose -- Why all the fuss about the body? a medievalist's perspective / Caroline Bynum -- Problematizing the self / Jerrold Seigel -- Afterword / Hayden White.