Synopses & Reviews
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 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.
Synopsis
An examination of social memory developed within communities from the perspective of anthropology. Many case studies from around the world.
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-223) and index.
Table of Contents
The cemetery : a site for the construction of memory, identity, and ethnicity /Doris Francis, Leonie Kellaher, and Georgina Neophytou --Memories of the American Jewish aliyah : connecting individual and collective experience /Jacob J. Climo --Kiowa : on song and memory /Luke Eric Lassiter --Symbolic violence and language : Mexico and its uses of symbols /Adina Cimet --Remembering and forgetting : creative expression and reconciliation in post-Pinochet Chile /Cheryl Natzmer --Meshingomesia Indian village schoolhouse in memory and history /Larry Nesper.