Artefacts from tomorrow: Future dilemmas of the parahistorian.
In 1987, Roy Sorensen coined the term "parahistory" to denote the hypothetical study of evidence retrieved via time travel. Parahistory would thus stand to history rather as parapsychology does to psychology; studying data (in this case artefacts) that are obtained in ways unrecognised by orthodox s...
| Publicado en: | Ratio Vol. 35; no. 3; pp. 159 - 169 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Sep2022
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