Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: 1. A child’s perspective on the past : influences of home, media and school / Kathy Emmott -- 2. Inuit perceptions of the past / Jack Anawak -- 3. From the raw to the cooked : Hadzabe perceptions of their past / D.K. Ndagala and N. Zengu -- 4. An 11th century literary reference to prehistoric times in India / Deena Bandhu Pandey -- 5. The valuation of time among the peasant population of the Alto Minho, northwestern Portugal / Jo©¿℗Łao de Pina-Cabral -- 6. Understanding Yolngu signs of the past / Nancy M. Williams and Daymbalipu Mununggurr -- 7. Geography and historical understanding in indigenous Colombia / Joanne Rappaport -- 8. Past and present of Andean Indian society : the Otavalos / Antonio Males -- 9. Oral tradition and the African past / Patrick Mbunwe-Samba -- 10. Classical Greek attitudes to the past / Brian Sparkes -- 11. Ancient Egyptian concepts and uses of the past : 3rd and 2nd millennium BC evidence / John Baines -- 12. Beginning of agriculture : a synchronism between Puranic and archaeological evidence / Rai Gyan Narain Prasad -- 13. Holding on to emblems : Australian aboriginal performances and the transmission of oral traditions / Margaret Clunies Ross -- 14. Perceptions of the past among north Queensland aboriginal people : the intrusion of Europeans and consequent social change / A.K. Chase -- 15. The past as perceived by the Bali Nyonga people of Cameroon -- 16. Archaeology and oral traditions in the Mitongoa-Andrainjato area (Betsileo region of Madagascar) / Victor Raharijaona -- 17. Interpretations and uses of the past in modern Britain and Europe. Why are people interested in the past? Do the experts know or care? A plea for further study / Peter G. Stone.