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...In the contemporary world, it is worrying trying to create cultural groups, because it is always motivated from an interest-position. Trying to define cultures in the past is always, as we know, part of a motivated attempt to find one's nostalgic origins or to create a sense of continuity.
— Ian Hodder
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About Ian Hodder
Ian Richard Hodder (born 1948) is a British archaeologist and pioneer of postprocessualist theory in archaeology.
About Ian Hodder
Ian Richard Hodder (born 1948) is a British archaeologist and pioneer of postprocessualist theory in archaeology.
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