Who Needs the Past? by R Layton
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.-
What is an Animal?
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The Politics of the Past
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Archaeology and the Information Age
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Cultural Resource Management in Contemporary Society
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Signifying Animals
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Conflict in the Archaeology of Living Traditions
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Transforming Heritage Practice in the 21st Century
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Rock Art and Sacred Landscapes
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Archaeology of Spiritualities
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Contesting Ethnoarchaeologies
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Unpacking the Collection
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Training and Practice for Modern Day Archaeologists
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Art and Archaeology
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Centre and Periphery
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Domination and Resistance
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Archaeologies of Internment
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The Origins of Human Behaviour
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Collision or Collaboration
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The Dead and their Possessions
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Historical Archaeology
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Destruction and Conservation of Cultural Property
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The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape
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Time, Process and Structured Transformation in Archaeology
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Time and Archaeology
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The Presented Past
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The Archaeology of Africa
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Illicit Antiquities
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From the Baltic to the Black Sea
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The Archaeology of Difference
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Tropical Archaeobotany
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Archaeologies of the British
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Indigenous Archaeologies
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The Excluded Past
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Cyber-Archaeology and Grand Narratives
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Sacred Sites, Sacred Places
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The Emergence of Agriculture
`Take(s) us from issues of cultural identity and its archaeological recognition through varying concepts of the past to issues of how the past may be used and ultimately to conflicts in values and ethical obligationsIt is an important journey of exploration - Antiquity
`The variety of organizational systems for the past that emerge from these papers is examined in Layton's introduction, itself a substantial contribution and a valuable discussion of the significance of the papers in the context of anthropological and archaeological thought' - Journal of the Anthropolological Society of Oxford
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| ISBN 13 | 9780415095587 |
| ISBN 10 | 0415095581 |
| Title | Who Needs the Past? |
| Author | R Layton |
| Series | One World Archaeology |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 1994-08-04 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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