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BURKE, Peter. Roger Chartier and the History of Popular Culture. Prismas [online]. 2022, vol.26, n.2, pp.156-167.  Epub 05-Nov-2022. ISSN 1852-0499.  http://dx.doi.org/10.48160/18520499prismas26.1304.

From the beginning, Roger Chartier has shown a particular interest in the history of “popular culture”, a concept that he began to redefine in the 1980s. However, his approach has not been free of contradictions and countermarches, typical, moreover, of the inherent ambiguity of the concept of “culture”. Starting from the crossover between a career and a concept, this paper deals with a period that could be considered as an intermediate phase of his intellectual path where he incorporated popular culture in various investigations that took place in early European modernity, either in the framework of urban history or in the history of written culture.

In the same way, the type of cultural history that Chartier has practiced as opposed to the traditional social history is analyzed, an option that culminates with an open question and a historiographical comparison between two trajectories: that of Chartier as a cultural historian of the social and that of the author, who assumes himself as a sociocultural historian.

Palabras clave : Roger Chartier; Popular Culture; Cultural History; History from Below; Cultural Studies.

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