Toward a Rapprochement

摘要: Toward a Rapprochement History and anthropology are forms of knowledge, the creation, formalization, practice which deeply embedded in historical experience Western Europe from fifteenth century to present. Until eighteenth was part history. Historians sought understand otherness time by postulating relationship between past present, being lineally causally related The belief that present result past, way men lived, their institutions governance, social forms, as well ideas, had been shaped over time, not merely system scholars, but become European culture. This affected could be studied transmitted identifying evidence action thought various collective representations embodied texts, art architecture, practices, customs. native theory itself transformed into chronology, with idea objectively measured computed through regular divisions periods events assigned dates. Europeans believed world, animate inanimate, an absolute datable origin. They developed chronology conceived linear fashion, enabled them order date reigns kings, lives saints, polities. also distinction what they true history