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Times and Identities: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before the University of Oxford on 1 May 1991
Times and Identities An Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before the University of Oxford on 1 May 1991 Author:J. Davis Professor Davis's lecture is a contribution to the discussion of relations between social anthropology and history and archaeology. It is concerned with the ethnographic evidence about different concepts of time, and suggests that (together with other things) they affect the way people understand the past. Professor Davis argues that concepts of... more » identity (which depend essentially on continuity) are highly variable.« less