ISBN:
0511984510
,
1139159534
,
1139160583
,
113916158X
,
9781139160582
,
9781139159531
,
9781139161589
,
9780511984518
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 178 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Connerton, Paul Spirit of Mourning : History, Memory and the Body
DDC:
306.9
Keywords:
Bereavement Psychological aspects
;
Memory Social aspects
;
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Death, Grief, Bereavement
;
SELF-HELP ; Death, Grief, Bereavement
;
Bereavement ; Psychological aspects
;
Memory ; Social aspects
;
Sorg ; psykologiska aspekter
;
Minnet ; sociala aspekter
Abstract:
"How is the memory of traumatic events, such as genocide and torture, inscribed within human bodies? In this book, Paul Connerton discusses social and cultural memory by looking at the role of mourning in the production of histories and the reticence of silence across many different cultures. In particular he looks at how memory is conveyed in gesture, bodily posture, speech and the senses -- and how bodily memory, in turn, becomes manifested in cultural objects such as tattoos, letters, buildings and public spaces. It is argued that memory is more cultural and collective than it is individual. This book will appeal to researchers and students in anthropology, linguistic anthropology, sociology, social psychology and philosophy."--Page [i]
Abstract:
1. The birth of histories from the spirit of mourning -- 2. Seven types of forgetting -- 3. Silences -- 4. Spatial orientation -- 5. Tradition as conversation and tradition as bodily re-enactment -- 6. Tattoos, masks, skin -- 7. Emphatic, mimetic and cosmic projection.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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