Cultural Memories
The Geographical Point of View
(Sprache: Englisch)
Focusing on the role of spatiality and places, this volume explores cultural memories -- social constructions of the past which allow human beings to orient themselves in time and space. Theoretical considerations are presented, as well as three case studies that illustrate the concepts discussed.
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Focusing on the role of spatiality and places, this volume explores cultural memories -- social constructions of the past which allow human beings to orient themselves in time and space. Theoretical considerations are presented, as well as three case studies that illustrate the concepts discussed.
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Cultural memories are social constructions of the past which allow human beings both personally and collectively to orient themselves in time and space. This book focusses on the role of spatiality and places for cultural memories. It offers new insights to the formation and development of cultural memories in ancient and modern societies. The book concentrates on theoretical considerations how cultural memories should be conceptualised, includes three case studies to apply these concepts to three very different contexts, focuses on the question of an emerging, distinct European cultural memory, its variances and especially the role of World War II for its origination, studies cultural memories in post-colonial contexts outside Europe, and offers insides on cultural memories in tribal, nomadic societies before or on the edge of Neolithic revolution. Cultural memories are social constructions of the past which allow humans personally and collectively to orient themselves in time and space. In this book, scholars in anthropology, egyptology, geography, history, political science and psychology offer new insights to the formation and development of cultural memories in ancient and modern societies, focusing on the role of spatiality and places. Part I covers theoretical considerations of how cultural memories should be conceptualised. Part II offers three case studies that apply these concepts to different contexts: the founding myth of a nation, contested memories related to a civil war, and oral traditions not referring to a national narrative. Part III details an emerging, distinct European cultural memory, its variances and the role of WW II for its origin. Part IV studies cultural memories in post-colonial contexts outside Europe. Part V probes cultural memories in tribal, nomadic societies before or near Neolithic revolution.
Cultural memories are social constructions of the past which allow human beings both personally and collectively to orient themselves in time and space. The essays included in this book focus on the role of spatiality and places for cultural memories. Renowned scholars in anthropology, egyptology, geography, history, political science, and psychology offer new insights to the formation and development of cultural memories in ancient and modern societies. The first part of the book concentrates on theoretical considerations how cultural memories should be conceptualised. The second part consists of three case studies to apply these concepts to three very different contexts: the founding myth of a nation, contested memories in connection with a civil war, and oral traditions not referring to a national narrative. The third part focuses on the question of an emerging, distinct European cultural memory, its variances and especially the role of World War II for its origination. The forth part studies cultural memories in post-colonial contexts outside Europe. Finally, the fifth part offers insides on cultural memories in tribal, nomadic societies before or on the edge of Neolithic revolution.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Cultural Memories “
Part I: Theoretical considerations: Communicative and Cultural Memory: Jan Assmann, Memory and Space in the Work of Maurice Halbwachs: David Middleton, Steven D. Brown, Disparities between Knowledge and Collective Memories: Peter Meusburger, Part II: Case Studies, The Rütli in Switzerland: minor memory - major ambition: Georg Kreis, Sharing Space? Geography and Politics in Post-conflict Northern Ireland : Brian Graham, Memory-Recollection-Culture-Identity-Space: Social Context, Identity Formation, and Self-construction of the Calé (Gitanos) in Spain: Christina West, Part III: World War II in European Cultural Memories: Seven Circles of European Memory: Claus Leggewie, Halecki Revisited: Europe's Conflicting Cultures of Remembrance: Stefan Troebst, "Remembering for whom? Concepts for memorials in Western Europe": Rainer Eckert, Family Memories of World War II and the Holocaust in Europe, or Is There a European Memory?: Harald Welzer, Annihilating-Preserving-Remembering: The "Aryanization" of Jewish History and Memory during the Holocaust: Dirk Rupnow, History/Archive/Memory: A Historical Geography of the U.S. Naval Memorial in Brest, France: Michael Heffernan, Places and Spaces: The Remembrance of D-Day 1944 in Normandy: Sandra Petermann, "Doors into Nowhere": Dead Cities and the Natural History of Destruction: Derek Gregory, Part IV: Postcolonial Cultural Memories, Violent Memories: South Asian Spaces of Postcolonial Anamnesis: Stephen Legg, Spacing Forgetting: The Birth of the Museum at Fort Jesus, Mombasa, and the Legacies of the Colonization of Memory in Kenya: Denis Linehan, Joao Sarmento: Part V: Pre-modern Cultural Memories: Landscape, Transformations and Immutability in an Aboriginal Australian Culture: Robert Tonkinson, Person, Space, and Memory. Why Anthropology needs Cognitive Science and Human Geography: Jürg Wassmann, Abstracts of the Contributions, The Klaus Tschira Foundation, Index
Bibliographische Angaben
- 2010, 384 Seiten, Maße: 16 x 24,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Herausgegeben:Meusburger, Peter; Heffernan, Michael; Wunder, Edgar
- Herausgegeben: Peter Meusburger, Michael Heffernan, Edgar Wunder
- Verlag: Springer Netherlands
- ISBN-10: 9048189446
- ISBN-13: 9789048189441
- Erscheinungsdatum: 12.05.2011
Sprache:
Englisch
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