Social Memory and History: Anthropological Perspectives

Social Memory and History: Anthropological Perspectives
Format
Hardback
Publisher
AltaMira Press,U.S.
Country
United States
Published
23 December 2002
Pages
252
ISBN
9780759101777

Social Memory and History: Anthropological Perspectives

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 Philadelphia 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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