Cultural Memories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cultural Memories write by Peter Meusburger. This book was released on 2011-05-11. Cultural Memories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage
Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage write by Veysel Apaydin i. This book was released on 2020-02-18. Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage focuses on the importance of memory and heritage for individual and group identity, and for their sense of belonging. It aims to expose the motives and discourses related to the destruction of memory and heritage during times of war, terror, sectarian conflict and through capitalist policies. It is within these affected spheres of cultural heritage where groups and communities ascribe values, develop memories, and shape their collective identity.
Cultural Memories of Nonviolent Struggles
Cultural Memories of Nonviolent Struggles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cultural Memories of Nonviolent Struggles write by A. Reading. This book was released on 2015-06-09. Cultural Memories of Nonviolent Struggles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. If societies have only memories of war, of cruelty, of violence, then why are we called humankind? This book marks a new trajectory in Memory Studies by examining cultural memories of nonviolent struggles from ten countries. The book reminds us of the enduring cultural scripts for human agency, solidarity, resilience and human kindness.
Cultural Memory and Early Civilization
Cultural Memory and Early Civilization - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cultural Memory and Early Civilization write by Jan Assmann. This book was released on 2011-12-05. Cultural Memory and Early Civilization available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pt. 1. The theoretical basis -- Memory culture -- Written culture -- Cultural identity and political imagination -- pt. 2. Case studies -- Egypt -- Israel and the invention of religion -- The birth of history from the spirit of the law -- Greece and disciplined thinking -- Cultural memory : a summary.
Mediation, Remediation, and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory
Mediation, Remediation, and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mediation, Remediation, and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory write by Astrid Erll. This book was released on 2009-07-14. Mediation, Remediation, and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of essays brings together two major new developments in cultural memory studies: firstly, the shift away from static models of cultural memory, where the emphasis lies on cultural products, in the direction of more dynamic models where the emphasis lies instead on the cultural and social processes involved in the ongoing production of shared views of the past; and secondly, the growing interest in the role of the media, and their role beyond that of mere storage, within these dynamics. The specific concern of this collection is linking the use of media to the larger socio-cultural processes involved in collective memory-making. The focus rests in particular on two aspects of media use: the basic dynamics of “mediation” and “remediation”. The key questions are: What role do media play in the production and circulation of cultural memories? How do mediation, remediation and intermediality shape objects and acts of cultural remembrance? How can new, emergent media redefine or transform what is collectively remembered? The essays of this collection focus on social, historical, religious, and artistic media-memories. The authors analyze the memory-making impact of news media, the mediation and remediation of lieux de mémoire, the medial representation of colonial and postcolonial, of Holocaust and Second World War memories, and finally the problematization of these very processes in artistic media forms, such as novels and movies.
