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9780759101784: Social Memory and History: Anthropological Perspectives
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ISBN 10: 0759101787 ISBN 13: 9780759101784
Publisher: AltaMira Press, 2002

Synopsis

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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About the Authors

Doris Francis is Research Associate, Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Leonie Kellaher is Principal Research Officer and Director of the Centre for Environmental and Social Studies in Ageing, University of North London and Senior Lecturer, University of North London.

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Publisher
AltaMira Press
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0759101787
ISBN 13 
9780759101784
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
252
Editor
Climo Jacob J., Cattell Maria G.
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