Between Memory and History: A special issue of the journal History and Anthropology - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3718650673 ISBN 13: 9783718650675

Publisher: Routledge, 1990

Synopsis

First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Synopsis

"Between Memory and History" which first appeared as a special issue of the journal history and anthropology, brings together a series of studies of the social framework of memory. Inspired by the work of Maurice Halbwachs and Roger Bastide, these studies go beyond the problem of oral testimony and written sources. They demonstrate the adaptations and modifications of memory and how they can become an object of study in their own right. In effect they contribute to an emerging history of memory. Some of the studies deal with groups at the heart of the Western world; peasants, workers and Jewish minorities; others with societies on which European colonialism has been imposed. In each case, it is the fragility of memory that emerges, and how it can be subjected to the pressures and constraints that undermine social identity itself.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3718650673
• ISBN 13: 9783718650675
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 196
• Editor: Bourguet Marie-Noelle, Valensi Lucette, Wachtel Nathan