Social Memory and History Anthropological Perspectives

by Climo, Jacob J.; Cattell, Maria G.; Archibald, Robert R.; Cimet, Adina; Climo, Jacob; Cohen, Marilyn,; Crumley, Carole L.; Francis, Doris; Kellaher, Leonie; Lassiter, Luke Eric; Natzmer, Cheryl; Neophytou, Georgina; Nesper, Larry

• ISBN13: 9780759101777
• ISBN10: 0759101779
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-10-23
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

An examination of social memory developed within communities from the perspective of anthropology. Many case studies from around the world.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction: Meaning in Social Memory and History: Anthropological Perspectives	1	(38)
Maria G. Cattell
Jacob J. Climo
Part I. Continuity in Memory, History, and Culture
Exploring Venues of Social Memory	39	(14)
Carole L. Crumley
``It Wasn't Woman's World'': Memory Construction and the Culture of Control in a North of Ireland Parish	53	(12)
Marilyn Cohen
A Personal History of Memory	65	(16)
Robert R. Archibald
Remembering the Past, Re-Membering the Present: Elders' Constructions of Place and Self in a Philadelphia Neighborhood	81	(14)
Maria G. Cattell
The Cemetery: A Site for the Construction of Memory, Identity, and Ethnicity	95	(16)
Doris Francis
Leonie Kellaher
Georgina Neophytou
Memories of the American Jewish Aliyah: Connecting Individual and Collective Experience	111	(20)
Jacob J. Climo
Part II. Contested Memory and History
Kiowa: On Song and Memory	131	(12)
Luke Eric Lassiter
Symbolic Violence and Language: Mexico and Its Uses of Symbols	143	(18)
Adina Cimet
Part III. Reconciliation and Redress
Remembering and Forgetting: Creative Expression and Reconciliation in Post-Pinochet Chile	161	(20)
Cheryl Natzmer
The Meshingomesia Indian Village Schoolhouse in Memory and History	181	(18)
Larry Nesper
Bibliography	199	(26)
Index	225	(10)
About the Contributors	235