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Presentism and the LAW

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

Reinhard Bernbeck  and
Susan Pollock
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We welcome the Lampeter Archaeology Workshop's (LAW) attempt to clarify the ways in which they understand relativism in post-processual archaeology and especially their distinctions among several kinds of relativism. We would like to comment on links between epistemological relativism and a particular view of history (or, more generally, the past) that the LAW's discussion raises. In particular, we draw attention to several implications of their positions, including the relative emphasis placed on the past and/or the present in archaeological interpretations, different ways of linking past and present, and the political implications of such links

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Archaeological Dialogues , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , July 1998 , pp. 34 - 36
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Copyright © The Author(s) 1998

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