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Wingfield, Chris 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8127-6548
(2004)
Historical Time versus the Imagination of Antiquity:Critical Perspectives from the Kalahari.
In:
The Qualities of Time.
Berg Publishers, pp. 119-135.
ISBN 9781003135449
Abstract
Anthropologists have long distinguished between the narrative forms of myth and history in human retellings of the past. Evans-Pritchard in his lecture ‘Anthropology and history’ noted the different character of myth and history, stating that myth ‘is not concerned so much with a succession of events as with the moral significance of situations, and is hence often allegorical or symbolical in form’. In interpreting archaeological evidence about the past, there lies a crossroads between the possibility of becoming historical in Collingwood’s sense, and the self-conscious propagation of myths. Technological opportunism appears to be a modus operandi for people making beads in the Kalahari, and the use of a variety of materials does not seem to be constrained by conservative notions of tradition.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Centres > Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas |
| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Jul 2024 16:30 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Sep 2024 08:27 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/95929 |
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