Open AccessPast as the Other – The Other as Past
Author(s) -
Staša Babić
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
etnoantropološki problemi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2334-8801
pISSN - 0353-1589
DOI - 10.21301/eap.v5i2.12
Subject(s) - identity (music) , colonialism , politics , context (archaeology) , anthropology , history , space (punctuation) , sociology , genealogy , ethnology , archaeology , aesthetics , art , political science , philosophy , law , linguistics
Modern academic disciplines of anthropology, history and archaeology are founded in the cultural, social, political context of the 18th and 19th centuries, at the times of the colonial expansion of the West European countries. Although demarcated by the objects of their study ("primitive societies", the past according to written sources, or material evidence), all these disciplines are grounded in the need to distinguish and strengthen the modern identity of the Europeans as opposed to the Others in space and time.