Genres of recollection : archival poetics and modern Greece / Penelope Papailias.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Papailias, Penelope.

Series:

Anthropology, history, and the critical imagination

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Historiography.

Greece--History--20th century--Historiography.

Greece.

Greece--History--20th century--Sources.

Physical Description:

xv, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Archival poetics and modern Greece

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Summary:

This book examines the politics of historical representation in Greek society through an ethnography of archiving and documentation. Its purpose is to explore the cultural mediation of historical knowledge, as well as the symbolic role played by archives and documents in the imagining of social collectivities. "Genres of Recollection analyzes a series of projects of historical recollection--none strictly-speaking historical and all, in one way or another, amateur--which have been conducted in Greek society since the end of the civil war. By drawing attention to the geohistorical and disciplinary "margins of history," this study challenges the assumptions that it would be most interesting and relevant to study historical production at its heart and, in the process, demonstrates the destabilizing potential inherent in anthropology's engagement with history.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-294) and index.

ISBN:

1403961050

1403961069

OCLC:

55511390

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