부산대학교 도서관

Chapter 1 questions the temporal rupture implied in conquest by asking both what is at stake in the historical consciousness of native actors and how to approach, in the absence of a local documentary tradition, their engagement with pasts and unprecedented futures under imperial rule. Drawing on anthropological works on historical consciousness, chapter 1 presents the theoretical foundations concerning how time and cultural identification become interlocked in historical process. Revisiting the models of linear and circular temporalities while noting the problematic dichotomy of Western/non-Western cultures, the first chapter shifts emphasis to how the past is articulated with the present along these distinctive frames, imbuing time flows with particular exigencies and capacities. These two temporal modalities shape actions in ways that fill durations with constancy and anticipation, which, instead of compromising or precluding, convey possibilities for mediating change and continuity.