Artifacts of history: events and the interpretation of images

In Jukka Siikala (ed.), Culture and history in the pacific. pp. 25-44 (1990)
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Amongst other things, this paper argues that a kind of anthropology, referred to by Strathern as modernist anthropology, has no reason to refer to artifacts except as illustrations. They are merely useful examples to illustrate information the anthropologist has provided about a given social/cultural context, e.g. to illustrate a worldview.

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The past is a foreign country.David Lowenthal - 1985 - New York: Cambridge University Press.

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