By Roni Weinstein
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58 The voyage to the past resembles the encounter of anthropologists with the communities they come to live in. The historian’s basic experience is an encounter with another culture and unknown human experiences, some of which might even be exceptional and incomprehensible. How to explain phenomena such as collective suicide, involving the killing of women and children, or a crusade purported to reach the Holy Land ending in war, pillage, and the destruction of the capital of the Byzantine Christian kingdom?
Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996), 291–292. See also idem, Speech Genres and Other Late Essays, trans. Vern W. McGee (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986). The most comprehensive literary analysis of Bakhtin’s stance appears, of course, in his Rabelais and His World (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984). 54 Burke, The French Historical Revolution, 80–81. 55 Charles Taylor, “To Follow a Rule . , Craig Calhoun, Edward LiPuma, and Moishe Postone (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993), 45–60.
Studies in the History of Popular Culture (in Hebrew), ( Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center, 1996), 6–11. In this volume, see also Esther and Robert Cohen, “Popular and Elite Culture: An Illusory Contrast,” 13–30. See 28 further, claiming that “popular culture” as a separate body is a fabrication of small social groups seeking to change the cultural atmosphere. For this purpose, they invent a fictitious enemy, over which they wield power and social control. They create a cultural construct that perceives the whole of mass culture as an entity bereft of historical dimensions, which has preserved the same features since time immemorial.