| Abstract | The article explores the state of ethnohistory and considers the state of play between anthropology and history. In anthropology, the relationship between history and anthropology has been marked by interpenetration. The ahistoricity and the opposition to "conjectural history" of British structural-functionalist social anthropology and much American cultural anthropology were eroding on a broad front as an increasing number of analyses incorporating history appeared. In history, new histories undermined the prevalence of the historical political and biographical narrative that had come to dominate historiography during the first half of the 20th century.
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