Who Needs the Past? - 9780415095587

Taylor & Francis

This book offers a critique of the all pervasive Western notion that other communities often live in a timeless present. Provides first-hand evidence of the interest non-Western, non-academic communities have in the past. > \nThis 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. > List of contributors Foreword Preface Introduction The Heritage of Eurocentricity 1. The Western world view in archaeological atlases 2. Public presentations and private concerns: archaeology in the pages of National Geographic 3. American nationality and ethnicity in the depicted past 4. Afro-Americans in the Massachusetts historical landscape 5. Black people and museums: the Caribbean Heritage Project in Southampton 6. `Volk und Germanentum': the presentation of the past in Nazi Germany Rulers and Ruled d