Historical Time versus the Imagination of Antiquity:Critical Perspectives from the Kalahari

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

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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
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:	15 Jul 2024 16:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/95929
DOI:	isbn:9781003135449

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