Time Maps
Zerubavel, Eviatar
Who were the first people to inhabit North America? Does the West Bank belong to the Arabs or the Jews? Why are racists so obsessed with origins? Is a seventh cousin still a cousin? Why do some societies name their children after dead ancestors?As Eviatar Zerubavel demonstrates in "Time Maps, " we cannot answer burning questions such as these without a deeper understanding of how we envision the past. In a pioneering attempt to map the structu...