Engaging with the Past and Present - The Relationship between Past and Present across the Disciplines (Hardcover)

This book is truly interdisciplinary, it asks how researchers from the humanities and natural sciences engage with and uncover the past and how their present influences what they and how the past is used for different purposes. This book informs students and researchers from each of the disciplines about the ways and pitfalls of each approach to inform their own research. Contributions from historians, literary scholars, geologist, cosmologists, evolutionary biologists, paleontologists and paleoanthropologists are given equal weight and asked how they engage with the past and present to offer, for the first time, a forum for each discipline to learn from each other and to offer new ideas of how the past can be engaged with from the present. The Engaging with … series offers practical instruction alongside theoretical standpoints to encourage an interdisciplinary discussion of emerging areas of collaboration.