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The Futures Of Our Pasts
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Author : Michael A. Adler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
The Futures Of Our Pasts written by Michael A. Adler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Antiquities categories.
Ownership of "the past"--a concept invoking age-old struggles to possess and control ancient objects--is an essential theme in understanding our global cultural heritage. Beyond ownership, however, lies the need for stewardship: the responsibility of owners, possessors, and others interested in ancient objects to serve as custodians for the benefit of present and future generations. Peru is battling Yale University over artifacts from Machu Picchu, Italy is demanding the return of treasured objects from museums and collectors alike, and Native American tribes and other indigenous communities seek to reclaim important cultural items and rebury human remains and funerary objects taken from their lands. In the middle of this roiling debate over who has the right to collect and display antiquities, a group of scholars convened to debate differing perspectives on the ethics of antiquities collecting. This volume is one outgrowth of those efforts.
The Future Of The Past
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Author : Alexander Stille
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2003-04-01
The Future Of The Past written by Alexander Stille and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-04-01 with Social Science categories.
An engrossing look at the cultural consequences of technological change and globalization Space radar, infrared photography, carbon dating, DNA analysis, microfilm, digital data bases-we have better technology than ever for studying and preserving the past. And yet the by-products of technology threaten to destroy--in one or two generations--monuments, works of art, and ways of life that have survived thousands of years of hardship and war. This paradox is central to our age. We use the Internet to access and assess infinite amounts of information--but understand less and less of its historical context. Globalization may eventually benefit countries around the world; it will also, almost certainly, lead to the disappearance of hundreds of regional dialects, languages, and whole societies. In The Future of the Past, Alexander Stille takes us on a tour of the past as it exists today and weighs its prospects for tomorrow, from China to Somalia to Washington, D.C. Through incisive portraits of their protagonists, he describes high-tech struggles to save the Great Sphinx and the Ganges; efforts to preserve Latin within the Vatican; the digital glut inside the National Archives, which may have lost more information in the information age than ever before; an oral culture threatened by a "new" technology: writing itself. Wherever it takes him, Stille explores not just the past, but our ideas about the past, how they are changing--and how they will have to change if our past is to have a future.
Futures Past
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Author : Reinhart Koselleck
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2004
Futures Past written by Reinhart Koselleck and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Modernity in the late eighteenth century transformed all domains of European life -intellectual, industrial, and social. Not least affected was the experience of time itself: ever-accelerating change left people with briefer intervals of time in which to gather new experiences and adapt. In this provocative and erudite book Reinhart Koselleck, a distinguished philosopher of history, explores the concept of historical time by posing the question: what kind of experience is opened up by the emergence of modernity? Relying on an extraordinary array of witnesses and texts from politicians, philosophers, theologians, and poets to Renaissance paintings and the dreams of German citizens during the Third Reich, Koselleck shows that, with the advent of modernity, the past and the future became 'relocated' in relation to each other.The promises of modernity -freedom, progress, infinite human improvement -produced a world accelerating toward an unknown and unknowable future within which awaited the possibility of achieving utopian fulfillment. History, Koselleck asserts, emerged in this crucial moment as a new temporality providing distinctly new ways of assimilating experience. In the present context of globalization and its resulting crises, the modern world once again faces a crisis in aligning the experience of past and present. To realize that each present was once an imagined future may help us once again place ourselves within a temporality organized by human thought and humane ends as much as by the contingencies of uncontrolled events.
Honouring Our Past Embracing Our Future
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Author : James Pitsula
language : en
Publisher: University of Regina Press
Release Date : 2011
Honouring Our Past Embracing Our Future written by James Pitsula and has been published by University of Regina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Education categories.
As the University of Regina marks 100 years of excellence in education on its campus, Honouring Our Past, Embracing Our Future is a tribute to the thousands of students, faculty members and staff who have contributed to the institution's development over the past century.
Amending Our Pasts And Futures
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Author : Nina Gjoci
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2024-12-15
Amending Our Pasts And Futures written by Nina Gjoci and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-12-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Amending our Pasts and Futures: Observing Media and Place as Means to Memory is an edited volume presenting original research from established and emerging scholars of public and collective memory. Contributors focus on topics including the memory of race and slavery, wars of oppression, and regional and ethnic identities to interrogate how we as collectives remember, commemorate, discuss, forget, and question what is historically revealed, appropriated, silenced, or concealed from public discourse. Through analyses of a wide range of cultural texts and contexts, contributors to this volume demonstrate the crucial role of communication and media in shaping public opinion—and our collective present more broadly—in an effort to amend our painful histories.
Creating Heritage
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Author : Thomas Carter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Creating Heritage written by Thomas Carter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Archaeologists categories.
This book investigates the selection process of heritagisation to understand what specific pasts are being selected or rejected for representation, who is selecting them, how and to whom they are being represented and why they are being presented, or dismissed, in the ways that they are. Some aspects of our pasts are venerated and memorialised for a variety of reasons, while others are forgotten or even hidden. This volume, thus, provides examples from across a spectrum. Some phenomena are well-suited to heritagisation, such as animals memorialised for their bravery, long past agricultural techniques and implements, and impressive landscapes. However, this book also deals with products (e.g. tobacco), historical periods (e.g. the Third Reich) and scientific techniques (e.g. genetic modification) with negative connotations that extend beyond their heritage attributes. This volume considers how the actors in the heritage industry admit, valorise, prioritise and rationalise historic resources as heritage products. These findings provide practical examples of how heritage institutions privilege, frame and/or exclude a wide range of heritage items. They also contrast the invocations of sectional (local, national or class based) and more cosmopolitan heritages and consider the extent to which innovation and change are or can be acknowledged within the heritage discourse.
Tales Of Futures Past
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Author : Paola Iovene
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-09
Tales Of Futures Past written by Paola Iovene and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
Most studies of Chinese literature conflate the category of the future with notions of progress and nation building, and with the utopian visions broadcast by the Maoist and post-Mao developmental state. The future is thus understood as a preconceived endpoint that is propagated, at times even imposed, by a center of power. By contrast, Tales of Futures Past introduces "anticipation"—the expectations that permeate life as it unfolds—as a lens through which to reexamine the textual, institutional, and experiential aspects of Chinese literary culture from the 1950s to 2011. In doing so, Paola Iovene connects the emergence of new literary genres with changing visions of the future in contemporary China. This book provides a nuanced and dynamic account of the relationship between state discourses, market pressures, and individual writers and texts. It stresses authors' and editors' efforts to redefine what constitutes literature under changing political and economic circumstances. Engaging with questions of translation, temporality, formation of genres, and stylistic change, Iovene mines Chinese science fiction and popular science, puts forward a new interpretation of familiar Chinese avant-garde fiction, and offers close readings of texts that have not yet received any attention in English-language scholarship. Far-ranging in its chronological scope and impressive in its interdisciplinary approach, this book rethinks the legacies of socialism in postsocialist Chinese literary modernity.
Ghosts Of Futures Past
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Author : Molly McGarry
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2012-09-30
Ghosts Of Futures Past written by Molly McGarry and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-30 with History categories.
"Simpson, imprint in humanities"--Page opposite title page.
The Future Of The Past
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Author : Tamara Bray
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-10-12
The Future Of The Past written by Tamara Bray and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-12 with Social Science categories.
To date, the notion of repatriation has been formulated as a highly polarized debate with museums, archaeologists, and anthropologists on one side, and Native Americans on the other. This volume offers both a retrospective and a prospective look at the topic of repatriation. By juxtaposing the divergent views of native peoples, anthropologists, museum professionals, and members of the legal profession, it illustrates the complexity of the repatriation issue.
The Knowledge Of The Past And The Future
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Author : Barisua Simeon
language : en
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
Release Date : 2015-01-28
The Knowledge Of The Past And The Future written by Barisua Simeon and has been published by Partridge Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-28 with Self-Help categories.
"The Knowledge of the Past and the Future" is a logical knowledge series about human existence, meant virtually to equip one with every logical tool necessary that is bound to make one to attain a good success. It does not only reveal that every success is not a good one but also what one has to do in order to be exceedingly successful. The author further reveals and explains one of the primary causes of people's lack of a good success, saying that they do not have a logicality thinking ability enough to understand the human existence, in general, and how an existence, in particular, is bound to live in life. In other words, a great many individuals are so ignorant of who they are, what the human existence entails, and how they should conceive living that they now end up struggling to live a successful life. Overall, it unveils how greatly one's past and one's future must agree with each other in an abiding and/or constant coalition, for one's existence to bring forth productiveness and a good, everlasting success.