No past, no present: A critical‐Nayaka perspective on cultural remembering

Title: No past, no present: A critical‐Nayaka perspective on cultural remembering
Creator: Bird‐David, Nurit
Date: 2004
Identifier: doi:10.1525/ae.2004.31.3.406; issn:0094-0496
Source: Original source
Is Part Of: American Ethnologist
Publisher: Wiley
Abstract: ABSTRACTBy means of an ethnographic analysis of Nayaka life stories and trance invocations, I revisit the common wisdom that cultures classed as “immediate‐return hunter‐gatherers” show little interest in the past. I argue that Nayaka are not interested in the past in the common Eurocentric understanding thereof. They are interested, however, in a past filtered through their own sensibilities. Their specific case supports a broader critique of studying ways of remembering the past in terms of a Eurocentric past–present distinction.
Bibliographic Citation: Bird‐David, Nurit. (2004). 'No past, no present: A critical‐Nayaka perspective on cultural remembering'. American Ethnologist, 31(3), pp. 406-421.
Extent: Vol. 31, Issue 3, pp. 406-421
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Type: journal-article
Kaanu ID: kb001257