Abstract
Despite a recent turn toward "historical anthropology," anthropological explanation still tends to be predisposed to neglect or oppose a historical sensibility. This paper addresses how anthropological explanation can be enhanced by a more acute attention to history, in several dimensions. Those chosen concern: first, how a particular form of historical imagination reveals the hidden logic of a social order (the example is Hupa); second, the methodological value of the archival record for explaining significant societal events (the 1906 split of the Hopi town of Orayvi); and, third, identifying explicitly ethical foundations in the anthropological discipline's origins (specifically, in Lewis Henry Morgan's League of the Iroquois). Anthropological inquiry and explanation need to develop a deeper historical consciousness.
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