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Overview
This book offers a critique of the all pervasive Western notion that other communities often live in a timeless present. Who Needs the Past? provides first-hand evidence of the interest non-Western, non-academic communities have in the past.Synopsis
This book offers a critique of the all pervasive Western notion that other communities often live in a timeless present. Who Needs the Past? provides first-hand evidence of the interest non-Western, non-academic communities have in the past.
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One of a series of some 20 volumes resulting from the September 1986 World Archaeological Congress in Southampton, England, first published in 1989. Contributors focus on the nature of literacy, and attempt to dispel the idea that literacy marks a distinctive mode of thought or facilitates the development of a new and different means of conceptualizing the past within time. They reveal that knowledge of the past is a political resource in many societies, and its control varies with the political structure of the community. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)