Cultural Memory And Survival
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Cultural Memory And Survival
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Author : Pamela Davidson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Cultural Memory And Survival written by Pamela Davidson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Civilization, Greco-Roman categories.
Can These Bones Live
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Author : Bella Brodzki
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2007
Can These Bones Live written by Bella Brodzki and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Literary Criticism categories.
Fundamentally concerned with the means by which translation ensures the afterlife of literary and cultural texts, this book examines multiple processes of translation, temporal and spatial, through acts of intercultural exchange and intergenerational transmission.
Cultural Memory And Identity In Ancient Societies
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Author : Martin Bommas
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2011-10-06
Cultural Memory And Identity In Ancient Societies written by Martin Bommas and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-06 with History categories.
In recent years memory has become a central concept in historical studies, following the definition of the term 'Cultural Memory' by the Egyptologist Jan Assmann in 1994. Thinking about memory, as both an individual and a social phenomenon, has led to a new way of conceptualizing history and has drawn historians into debate with scholars in other disciplines such as literary studies, cultural theory and philosophy. The aim of this volume is to explore memory and identity in ancient societies. 'We are what we remember' is the striking thesis of the Nobel laureate Eric R Kandel, and this holds equally true for ancient societies as modern ones. How did the societies of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome remember and commemorate the past? How were relationships to the past, both individual and collective, articulated? Exploring the balance between memory as survival and memory as reconstruction, and between memory and historically recorded fact, this volume unearths the way ancient societies formed their cultural identity.
History And Memory
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Author : Geoffrey Cubitt
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2013-01-18
History And Memory written by Geoffrey Cubitt and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-18 with History categories.
In recent years, ‘memory’ has become a central, though also a controversial, concept in historical studies - a term that denotes both a new and distinctive field of study and a fresh way of conceptualizing history as a field of inquiry more generally. This book, which is aimed both at specialists and at students, provides historians with an accessible and stimulating introduction to debates and theories about memory, and to the range of approaches that have been taken to the study of it in history and other disciplines Contributing in a wide-ranging way to debate on some of the central conceptual problems of memory studies, the book explores the relationships between the individual and the collective, between memory as survival and memory as reconstruction, between remembering as a subjective experience and as a social or cultural practice, and between memory and history as modes of retrospective knowledge.
Cultural Memory
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Author : Jeannette Marie Mageo
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2001-01-01
Cultural Memory written by Jeannette Marie Mageo and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-01 with Social Science categories.
How do foreign schemas and objects enter into indigenous ways of understanding the world? How are the cultural self and the cultural other constructed in acts of remembering? What is memory's role in the generation or degeneration of cultural meanings? This volume offers fruitful responses to such questions, providing insights into colonial memory and its limitations and proposing explanations that illumine cultural memory processes.
Cultural Memory
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Author : Jeanette Rodríguez
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2009-01-27
Cultural Memory written by Jeanette Rodríguez and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-27 with Social Science categories.
Sangre llama a sangre. (Blood cries out to blood.)—Latin American aphorism The common "blood" of a people—that imperceptible flow that binds neighbor to neighbor and generation to generation—derives much of its strength from cultural memory. Cultural memories are those transformative historical experiences that define a culture, even as time passes and it adapts to new influences. For oppressed peoples, cultural memory engenders the spirit of resistance; not surprisingly, some of its most powerful incarnations are rooted in religion. In this interdisciplinary examination, Jeanette Rodriguez and Ted Fortier explore how four such forms of cultural memory have preserved the spirit of a particular people. Cultural Memory is not a comparative work, but it is a multicultural one, with four distinct case studies: the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe and the devotion it inspires among Mexican Americans; the role of secrecy and ceremony among the Yaqui Indians of Arizona; the evolving narrative of Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador as transmitted through the church of the poor and the martyrs; and the syncretism of Catholic Tzeltal Mayans of Chiapas, Mexico. In each case, the authors' religious credentials eased the resistance encountered by social scientists and other researchers. The result is a landmark work in cultural studies, a conversation between a liberation theologian and a cultural anthropologist on the religious nature of cultural memory and the power it brings to those who wield it.
Cultural Memories
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Author : Peter Meusburger
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2011-05-11
Cultural Memories written by Peter Meusburger and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-11 with Social Science categories.
The revival of interest in collective cultural memories since the 1980s has been a genuinely global phenomenon. Cultural memories can be defined as the social constructions of the past that allow individuals and groups to orient themselves in time and space. The investigation of cultural memories has necessitated an interdisciplinary perspective, though geographical questions about the spaces, places, and landscapes of memory have acquired a special significance. The essays in this volume, written by leading anthropologists, geographers, historians, and psychologists, open a range of new interpretations of the formation and development of cultural memories from ancient times to the present day. The volume is divided into five interconnected sections. The first section outlines the theoretical considerations that have shaped recent debates about cultural memory. The second section provides detailed case studies of three key themes: the founding myths of the nation-state, the contestation of national collective memories during periods of civil war, and the oral traditions that move beyond national narrative. The third section examines the role of World War II as a pivotal episode in an emerging European cultural memory. The fourth section focuses on cultural memories in postcolonial contexts beyond Europe. The fifth and final section extends the study of cultural memory back into premodern tribal and nomadic societies.
Cultural Memory And Western Civilization
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Author : Aleida Assmann
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-11-14
Cultural Memory And Western Civilization written by Aleida Assmann and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-14 with History categories.
This book provides an introduction to the concept of cultural memory, offering a comprehensive overview of its history, forms and functions.
Cognitive Poetics And Cultural Memory
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Author : Mikhail Gronas
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2010-10-18
Cognitive Poetics And Cultural Memory written by Mikhail Gronas and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-18 with Social Science categories.
In this volume, Gronas addresses the full range of psychological, social, and historical issues that bear on the mnemonic existence of modern literary works, particularly Russian literature. He focuses on the mnemonic processes involved in literary creativity, and the question of how our memories of past reading experiences shape the ways in which we react to literary works. The book also examines the concrete mnemonic qualities of poetry, as well as the social uses to which poetry memorization has historically been put to use. This study will appeal to scholars of cognitive poetics, Russian literature, and cultural studies.
Locality Memory Reconstruction
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Author : Jopi Nyman
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2011-11-15
Locality Memory Reconstruction written by Jopi Nyman and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-15 with Social Science categories.
This interdisciplinary volume explores the role of culture in single-industry communities facing the loss of their major industry. In a series of innovative case studies extending from New Zealand and Slovenia to the contemporary Nordic and Baltic States, the contributors address a wide range of topical issues. These include the role of the community’s past as a marker of its newly reconstructed identity and the importance of local traditions, landscapes, and place-related memories in post-industrial communities formerly dependent on one single employer or industry. The empirical case studies emphasise the role of cultural memory and local identity as communal strategies of survival and perseverance in such places and provide fresh perspectives into this turn to culture. The four parts of the book address such topics as the symbolic governance of change, tradition as capital, narratives as collective memories, and post-Soviet transition in comparative perspective. The team of international contributors hails from Australia, Estonia, Finland, Germany, and Slovenia and represents the fields of sociology, cultural policy, cultural history, landscape studies, and geography.