DECENTERING HISTORY: LOCAL STORIES AND CULTURAL CROSSINGS IN A GLOBAL WORLD

This essay was first presented at the 2010 Ludwig Holberg Prize Symposium in Bergen, Norway, where I, as the prize recipient, was asked to describe my work and its import for our period of globalization. The essay first traces the interconnected processes of "decentering" history in Wester...

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Diviners
Ethnicity
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Globalization
Healers
Healing
Historical analysis
History instruction
Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406)
Narratives
Plantations
Slavery
Slaves
Social history
Women
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