Descript |
180 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
Note |
Originally published: 2003. |
Contents |
Social shape of the past -- Plotlines and narratives -- Progress -- Decline -- Zigzag in time -- Ladders and trees -- Circles and rhymes -- Mountains and valleys -- Legato and staccato -- Historical continuity -- Same place -- relics and memorabilia -- Imitation and replication -- "Same" time -- Historical analogy -- Discursive continuity -- Ancestry and descent -- Dynasties and pedigree -- Common descent -- Social organization of descent -- "Family of man" -- Apes and grapes -- Language and lineage -- Historical discontinuity -- Social punctuation of the past -- Assimilation and differentiation -- History and prehistory -- Social concstruction of historical discontinuity -- In the beginnings -- Antiquity -- Priority. |
ISBN |
9780226981536 (pbk.) |
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0226981533 (pbk.) |
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0226981525 (cased) |
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9780226981529 (cased) |
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