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Looking forward, looking back

Abstract:

This paper surveys the disparate literatures on time, and the relative paucity of metaphors available (based on spatial analogues or mirroring past and future onto one another). Parallels between approaches to the past and future are considered and different intellectual traditions surveyed in futurology, memory, history (chronotopes), archaeology and philosophy. Causation across time, how the past affects the present, how the future may affect present and the past are considered as ways of b...

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Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
SAME
Role:
Author
Publisher:
Routledge Publisher's website
Journal:
History and Anthropology
Volume:
26
Issue:
4
Pages:
381-407
Publication date:
2015-10-09
Acceptance date:
2015-04-18
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EISSN:
1477-2612
ISSN:
0275-7206
Language:
English
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uuid:09c9e5b3-0f0d-448e-a907-a68366ba152c
Deposit date:
2015-04-19

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