History And Culture

History and culture.
Cultural history is the name of a current historiographical more than a branch of history or academic discipline itself. Began to be used so common from the 1970s, especially todefine certain work of historians Anglophone (English and American) and French (French). Historians of Hispanic tradition soon endorse this current methods because in the tradition of the differentHispanic countries were more common ideas of Ortega y Gasset to study the ideas and cultural traditions. The cultural history combines the methodologies of anthropology and history to study thetraditions of popular culture or cultural interpretations of historical experience.
Generally, focuses on historical events that occur between groups that make up the elite of a society, like carnival,festivals and public rituals. It also deals with popular traditions and oral transmission of stories, songs, epic poems and other forms of oral tradition. Sometimes historians who cultivate study thedevelopment of cultural elements related to human relationships that make it possible, as ideas, science, art, technology and cultural expressions of social movements such as nationalism or patriotism .It also examines key historical concepts as power, ideology, class, culture, identity, race, perception, attitude, and develops new methods of historical research as the narrative of the body. Manystudies consider the process of adaptation of the popular culture to mass media (television, radio, newspapers and magazines, among others), the adaptation process of writing a movie, and now the processof assimilation of culture oral, visual and written to the Internet.
Other forms or recent theoretical developments in cultural history from other fields such as art history, previous methodologicalapproaches, such as the Annales School, Marxism, and microhistory, or theoretical formulations developed by individual intellectuals, as Jürgen Habermas of "public opinion", the Clifford Geertz on...