Negotiating pasts in the Nordic countries : interdisciplinary studies in history and memory / edited by Anne Eriksen & J{acute}on Vi℗ðar Sigur℗ðsson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eriksen, Anne.

J{acute}on Vi℗ðar Sigur℗ðsson, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scandinavia--History--Study and teaching.

Scandinavia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lund, Sweden : Nordic Academic Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A contribution to the popular international and interdisciplinary field of collective memory within a Scandinavian context, this reference presents a number of case studies—from the Middle Age to the present time—that discuss how people look to the past for identity and meaning. Acknowledging that many pasts exist—sometimes harmoniously and other times in conflict—this resource attempts to negotiate the past by analyzing the tensions that occur when individuals with different interests, understandings, and points of view study history and by exploring the inherent desire to develop a consensus between the past and the present. Examining subject areas such as social and cultural history, literature, cultural studies, archeology, mythology, and anthropology, this study expresses how crucial it is to understand the processes of dealing with the past when trying to chart how and why societies and communities change and evolve.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Negotiating Negotiations Theorising a concept - conceptualising theory; Negotiating the Past in the High Middle Ages; Historical Writing and the Political Situation in Iceland 1100-1400; Political Polemics in Early Modern Scandinavia; National Histories Sven Lagerbring and his Channels of Communication; Negotiating the History of the World; On Whales, Potholes and Giants; The Historical Novel Negotiating the Past Enquist's The Visit of the Royal Physician; Using a Past - Magistra Vitæ Approaches to History

Personal Pain, National Narrative Commemorating an SS-campNegotiating Holocaust Memory in School-trip Reports; The Emperor and the Aunts; Negotiating Pasts - an Afterthought; About the Authors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789187121180

9187121182

9789185509881

9185509884

OCLC:

796383043