Gathercole / Lowenthal The Politics of the Past

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-134-86642-7
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 346 Seiten

Reihe: One World Archaeology

'History is written by the winners' is the received wisdom. This book explains why historical interpretation has to incorporate perspectives from those other than 'winners', and demonstrates archaeology's crucial role in this wide-ranging approach. The book draws more on Africa, Afro-America, Australasia and Oceania than on Europe, the source of the traditionally dominant perspective in archaeology. The four organizing themes of The Politics of the Past are the forms and consequences of the Eurocentric heritage, the conflicting perspectives of rulers and ruled, the significance of administrative and institutional rivalries, and the cleavages that divide professional from popular views of archaeology.
Archaeologists, anthropologists, historians and other scholars will find The Politics of the Past illuminating and provocative. It will enrich historical and archaeological inquiry and interpretation, and ramify their relevance for public policy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gathercole, P.

Gathercole, Peter

Lowenthal, D.

Lowenthal, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of contributors Foreword Preface Introduction: Who needs the past? 1. A child's perspective on the past: influences of home, media and school 2. Innuit perceptions of the past 3. From the raw to the cooked: Hadzabe perceptions of their past 4. An 11th century literary reference to prehistoric times in India 5. The valuation of time among the peasant population of the Alto Minho, northwestern Portugal 6. Understanding Yolngu signs of the past 7. Geography and historical understanding in indigenous Colombia 8. Past and present of Andean Indian society: the Otavalos 9. Oral tradition and the African past 10. Classical Greek attitudes to the past 11. Ancient Egyptian concepts and uses of the past: 3rd and 2nd millennium BC evidence 12. Beginning of agriculture: a synchronism between Puranic and archaeological evidence 13. Holding on to emblems: Australian Aboriginal performances and the transmission of oral traditions 14. Perceptions of the past among north Queensland Aboriginal people: the intrusion of European and consequent social change 15. The past as perceived by the Bali Myonga people of Cameroon 16. Archaeology and oral traditions in the Mitongoa-Andrainjato area (Betsileo region of Madagascar) 17. Interpretations and uses of the past in modern Britain and Europe. Why are people interested in the past? Do the experts know or care? A plea for further study