The Labyrinth of Memory
Ethnographic Journeys
Published on 30. July 1995
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-0-89789-409-8 (ISBN)
Description
This work is a study of the various ways in which individuals and groups use memory narratives to express and form the quality of their lives. Activities of remembering, forgetting, reconstructing, metamorphosizing, and vicariously remembering are described for cultures in Latin America, Africa, Europe, Canada, and the United States. The authors find that the territory of memory is bounded by neither space nor time, but exists in the minds of individuals and groups. Memory changes as individuals and cultures change, forming a dialogue between the past and the present in response to present and changing needs. Memories of dislocation, war, torture, famine, and separation are given particular attention for the way they create meaning in the present and future lives of those who remember and share their memories.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Interest Age: From 7 to 17 years
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
517 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-89789-409-8 (9780897894098)
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Persons
MAREA C. TESKI is Professor of Anthropology at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.
JACOB J. CLIMO is Professor of Anthropology at Michigan State University.
JACOB J. CLIMO is Professor of Anthropology at Michigan State University.
Content
Preface Introduction by Marea C. Teski and Jacob J. Climo Remembering Leaving Home: Memories of Distant - Living Children by Jacob J. Climo Children of Immigrants Remember: The Evolution of Ethnic Culture by Rakhmiel Peltz The Remembering Consciousness of a Polish Exile Government by Marea C. Teski Forgetting Social Memory and Germany's Anti-Foreigner Crisis: A Case of Collective Forgetting by Andrea L. Smith Reconstructing Mau Mau and Memory Rooms: Placing a Social Emotion by Richard Swiderski Chaptering the Narrative: The Material of Memory in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania by Donna O. Kerner It Only Counts If You Can Share It by Molly G. Schuchat Metamorphosis Memories of Violence, Monuments of History by Antonella Fabri Representation and Valuation in Micmac Prehistory: The Petroglyphs of Bedford, Nova Scotia by Brian Leigh Molyneaux Vicarious Memory Prisoners of Silence: A Vicarious Holocaust Memory by Jacob J. Climo Memories and Their Unintended Consequences by Iwao Ishino Bibliography Index