Title: Performances /
Authors: Dening, Greg.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Historiography; History Philosophy
Contents: Prelude: Ethnograpy on My Mind -- Making a Present out of the Past: History's Anthropology. A Poetric for Histories. Sharks that Walk on the Land. The Face of Battle: Valparaiso, 1814 -- Presenting the Past: History's Theatre. The Theatricality of History Making and the Paradoxes of Acting. Possessing Tahiti. Hollywood Makes History. Inventing Others -- Returning to the Past Its Own Present: History's Empowering Force. Songlines and Seaways. Anzac Day. School at War -- Postlude: Soliloquy in San Giacomo.