Pardaillan: Indeed, “... history is not a product of the past but a response to requirements of the present” (Eriksen 1993: 72). To paraphrase Peter Worsley (1984: 249), one can argue that the past is “not absolute or simply intellectual category, but is invoked to provide identities, which legitimize claims to rights”. In fact, people construct the past, first, with reference to both the contemporary socio-political landscape and the interests and values embedded in it (Fogelson 1989: 139), and second, in order to develop projects for the future that are based on the respectively interpreted or reinterpreted past.

Indeed, “... history is not a product of the past but a response to requirements of the present” (Eriksen 1993: 72). To paraphrase Peter Worsley (1984: 249), one can argue that the past is “not absolute or simply intellectual category, but is invoked to provide identities, which legitimize claims to rights”. In fact, people construct the past, first, with reference to both the contemporary socio-political landscape and the interests and values embedded in it (Fogelson 1989: 139), and second, in order to develop projects for the future that are based on the respectively interpreted or reinterpreted past.

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The Value of the Past Victor Schnirelmann

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