ABSTRACT
‘The past is a foreign country’ is a metaphor that works by extending the meaning of distance and borders from space to time. To get to a foreign country, far away or not, one has to cross over one or more spatial barriers. To make a journey through time apparently also involves crossing borders, and landing in a strange place. We usually call this retracing of steps though time ‘history’. In what way is that different from ‘heritage’?
