Social memory and history : anthropological perspectives / edited by Jacob J. Climo and Maria G. Cattell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Climo, Jacob, 1945-

Cattell, Maria G.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnopsychology.

Learning, Psychology of.

Social learning.

Memory--Social aspects.

Memory.

Cognition and culture.

Social values.

Physical Description:

xi, 237 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, CA : AltaMira Press, [2002]

Summary:

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 from Kiowa songsters, Burgundian farmers, elderly Philadelphia 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.

Contents:

Introduction: Meaning in Social Memory and History: Anthropological Perspectives / Maria G. Cattell, Jacob J. Climo 1

Part I. Continuity in Memory, History, and Culture

Chapter 1 Exploring Venues of Social Memory / Carole L. Crumley 39

Chapter 2 "It Wasn't a Woman's World": Memory Construction and the Culture of Control in a North of Ireland Parish / Marilyn Cohen 53

Chapter 3 A Personal History of Memory / Robert R. Archibald 65

Chapter 4 Remembering the Past, Re-Membering the Present: Elders' Constructions of Place and Self in a Philadelphia Neighborhood / Maria G. Cattell 81

Chapter 5 The Cemetery: A Site for the Construction of Memory, Identity, and Ethnicity / Doris Francis, Leonie Kellaher, Georgina Neophytou 95

Chapter 6 Memories of the American Jewish Aliyah: Connecting Individual and Collective Experience / Jacob J. Climo 111

Part II. Contested Memory and History

Chapter 7 Kiowa: On Song and Memory / Luke Eric Lassiter 131

Chapter 8 Symbolic Violence and Language: Mexico and Its Uses of Symbols / Adina Cimet 143

Part III. Reconciliation and Redress

Chapter 9 Remembering and Forgetting: Creative Expression and Reconciliation in Post-Pinochet Chile / Cheryl Natzmer 161

Chapter 10 The Meshingomesia Indian Village Schoolhouse in Memory and History / Larry Nesper 181.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-223) and index.

ISBN:

0759101779

0759101787

OCLC:

49805986