Social Construction of the Past: Representation as Power (One World Archaeology) - Hardcover

9780415090452: Social Construction of the Past: Representation as Power (One World Archaeology)

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ISBN 10: 0415090458 ISBN 13: 9780415090452

Publisher: Routledge, 1994

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First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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"Students and professionals will find the volume a useful and informative set of state-of-the-art papers on the role of the past in the present." -"American Anthropologist Sep, 1998

Synopsis:

Anthropological and archaeological enquiry are shaped by the historical times in which they are formulated. This collection of essays examines how mainstream scholarship constructs the past - in the case of anthropologists, usually the past of other peoples. By creating another people's cultural history, scholars appropriate it and turn it into a form of domination by one group over another. Mainstream scholarship has often failed to recognize the intellectual and scholarly contribution of subjugated peoples . This volume looks at the way 'postcolonial' scholars are redefining the nature of scholarship, and themselves, in order to develop a more egalitarian discourse. Social Constructions of the Past examines labour, race and gender and its relationship to power and class. It includes essays on a broad range of topics, from the role of intellectuals in restructuring a non-apartheid South Africa, to Haitian working-class women using sexuality to resist domination.

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