Ever since the establishment of the functionalist/structuralist tradition in anthropology, most anthropologists have abstained from discussing 'history' in their research. Though EVANS-PRITCHARD, and even LEVI-STRAUSS, emphasized the closeness of anthropology to history, the modern anthropological paradigm has been under the rule of 'synchrony.' Only in recent years have some ethnographers begun to realize the weakness of ahistorical ethnographic studies and to free themselves from a deep synchronic bias. As a result, it has been gradually acknowledged that ethnographers, who are dissatisfied with conventional ethnographies set in a timeless present, are obliged to confront 'history' in their search for innovative ways of ethnographic writing. Now it is time to discuss from a new perspective the possibility of anthropological study of history.
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