Social Memory and History
Anthropological Perspectives
AltaMira Press
1st Edition
Published on 23. October 2002
252 pages
978-0-7591-1643-6 (ISBN)
Description
In Social Memory and History, a group of anthropologists, sociologists, social linguists, gerontologists, and historians explore the ways in which memory reconstructs the past and constructs the present. A substantial introduction by the editors outlines the key issues in the understanding of social memory: its nature and process, its personal and political implications, the crisis in memory, and the relationship between social and individual memory. Ten cross-cultural case studies-groups ranging from Kiowa songsters, Burgundian farmers, elderly Phildelaphia whites, Chilean political activists, American immigrants to Israel, and Irish working class women-then explore how social memory transmits culture or contests it at the individual, community, and national levels in both tangible and symbolic spheres.
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1. Auflage
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English
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United States
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978-0-7591-1643-6 (9780759116436)
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Climo is an anthropologist at Michigan State University. Cattell is a research associate in anthropology at The Field Museum, Chicago.
Content
Part 1 Introduction: Meaning in Social Memory and History: Anthropological Perspectives
Part 2 Part I: Continuity in Memory, History, and Culture
Chapter 3 Chapter 1: Exploring Venues of Social Memory
Chapter 4 Chapter 2: It Wasn't a Woman's World: Memory Construction and the Culture of Control in a North of Ireland Parish
Chapter 5 Chapter 3: A Personal History of Memory
Chapter 6 Chapter 4: Remembering the Past, Re-Membering the Present: Elders' Constructions of Place and Self in a Philadelphia Neighborhood
Chapter 7 Chapter 5: The Cemetery: A Site for Construction of Memory, Identity, and Ethnicity
Chapter 8 Chapter 6: Memories of the American Jewish Aliyah: Connecting Individual and Collective Experience
Part 9 Part II Contested Memory and History
Chapter 10 Chapter 7: Kiowa: On Song and Memory
Chapter 11 Chapter 8: Symbolic Violence and Language: Mexico and Its Uses of Symbols
Part 12 Part III Reconciliation and Redress
Chapter 13 Chapter 9: Remembering and Forgetting: Creative Expression and Reconciliation in Post-Pinochet Chile
Chapter 14 Chapter 10: The Meshingomesia Indian Village Schoolhouse in Memory and History
Part 15 Bibliography
Part 16 Index
Part 17 About the Authors
Part 2 Part I: Continuity in Memory, History, and Culture
Chapter 3 Chapter 1: Exploring Venues of Social Memory
Chapter 4 Chapter 2: It Wasn't a Woman's World: Memory Construction and the Culture of Control in a North of Ireland Parish
Chapter 5 Chapter 3: A Personal History of Memory
Chapter 6 Chapter 4: Remembering the Past, Re-Membering the Present: Elders' Constructions of Place and Self in a Philadelphia Neighborhood
Chapter 7 Chapter 5: The Cemetery: A Site for Construction of Memory, Identity, and Ethnicity
Chapter 8 Chapter 6: Memories of the American Jewish Aliyah: Connecting Individual and Collective Experience
Part 9 Part II Contested Memory and History
Chapter 10 Chapter 7: Kiowa: On Song and Memory
Chapter 11 Chapter 8: Symbolic Violence and Language: Mexico and Its Uses of Symbols
Part 12 Part III Reconciliation and Redress
Chapter 13 Chapter 9: Remembering and Forgetting: Creative Expression and Reconciliation in Post-Pinochet Chile
Chapter 14 Chapter 10: The Meshingomesia Indian Village Schoolhouse in Memory and History
Part 15 Bibliography
Part 16 Index
Part 17 About the Authors
