The search for unifying narratives, for a single logic that might underpin archaeological explanation universally, is a misplaced venture. Rather than grading different narratives for some form of absolute truth content, we should be asking which alternative we find the most useful relative to the immediate question at hand.
One law to be left in cleaning out the legislative cupboard must be the defence against the closure that is effected by totalizing discourses--the notion that there is a single truth, a single narrative, a single past out there to be found, and that there is but one way of telling it. Chris Ballard 2003.
One law to be left in cleaning out the legislative cupboard must be the defence against the closure that is effected by totalizing discourses--the notion that there is a single truth, a single narrative, a single past out there to be found, and that there is but one way of telling it. Chris Ballard 2003.
- Chris Ballard on Multiple Narratives, source of the quote
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