Social Memory and History: Anthropological Perspectives - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0759101787 ISBN 13: 9780759101784

Publisher: AltaMira Press,U.S., 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 Author

Luke Eric Lassiter is Professor of Humanities and Anthropology and director of the graduate humanities program at Marshall University Graduate College in South Charleston, West Virginia.

Edition details

• Publisher: AltaMira Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0759101787
• ISBN 13: 9780759101784
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Jacob J. Climo, Maria G. Cattell