Who Needs the Past?: Indigenous Values and Archaeology

Robert Layton

Psychology Press, 1994 - History - 215 pages

This 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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Who Needs the Past?: Indigenous Values and Archaeology; Volume 5 of One world archaeology
• Editor: Robert Layton
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Psychology Press, 1994
• ISBN: 0415095581, 9780415095587
• Length: 215 pages
• Subjects: History / General; History / Historiography; Social Science / Archaeology