Between History and Histories

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ISBN: 9780802078834 | 0802078834
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Copyright: 12/1/1997

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This collection of case studies from around the world uses a new approach in historical anthropology, one that focuses on heterogeneity within cultures rather than coherence to explain how we commemorate certain events, while silencing others.

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Preface
Introduction	p. 3
Silencing the Past: Layers of Meaning in the Haitian Revolution	p. 31
Against Experience: The Struggles for History, Tradition, and Hope among a Native American People	p. 62
Pandora's History: Central Peruvian Peasants and the Re-covering of the Past	p. 80
Renaissance and Kaliyuga: Time, Myth, and History in Colonial Bengal	p. 98
The 'Day of National Mourning' in Germany	p. 127
Histories of Mourning: Flowers and Stones for the War Dead, Confusion for the Living - Vignettes from East and West Germany	p. 149
Silences of the Living, Orations of the Dead: The Struggle in Kenya for S. M. Otieno's Body, 20 December 1986 to 23 May 1987	p. 180
Lords Ask, Peasants Answer: Making Traditions in Late-Medieval Village Assemblies	p. 199
From Peasant Wars to Urban 'Wars': The Anti-Mafia Movement in Palermo	p. 230
Work and the Production of Silence	p. 263
The So-Called Laichingen Hunger Chronicle: An Example of the Fiction of the Factual, the Traps of Evidence, and the Possibilities of Proof in the Writing of History	p. 284
Further Thoughts on the Production of History	p. 300
Contributors	p. 311
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