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Book SynopsisThroughout this text the author shows his awareness that the actual past remains fundamentally irreplicable. He asserts all histories to be culturally crafted artifacts, commensurate with folk tales, stage plays, or films.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes to the Reader Prelude: Ethnograpy on My Mind Making a Present out of the Past: History's Anthropology A Poetric for Histories Sharks that Walk on the Land The Face of Battle: Valparaiso, 1814 Presenting the Past: History's Theatre The Theatricality of History Making and the Paradoxes of Acting Possessing Tahiti Hollywood Makes History Inventing Others Returning to the Past Its Own Present: History's Empowering Force Songlines and Seaways Anzac Day School at War Postlude: Soliloquy in San Giacomo References
