Social Memory and History Anthropological Perspectives

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Summary

An examination of social memory developed within communities from the perspective of anthropology. Many case studies from around the world.

Preface	p. ix
Introduction: Meaning in Social Memory and History: Anthropological Perspectives	p. 1
Continuity in Memory, History, and Culture
Exploring Venues of Social Memory	p. 39
"It Wasn't a Woman's World": Memory Construction and the Culture of Control in a North of Ireland Parish	p. 53
A Personal History of Memory	p. 65
Remembering the Past, Re-Membering the Present: Elders' Constructions of Place and Self in a Philadelphia Neighborhood	p. 81
The Cemetery: A Site for the Construction of Memory, Identity, and Ethnicity	p. 95
Memories of the American Jewish Aliyah: Connecting Individual and Collective Experience	p. 111
Contested Memory and History
Kiowa: On Song and Memory	p. 131
Symbolic Violence and Language: Mexico and Its Uses of Symbols	p. 143
Reconciliation and Redress
Remembering and Forgetting: Creative Expression and Reconciliation in Post-Pinochet Chile	p. 161
The Meshingomesia Indian Village Schoolhouse in Memory and History	p. 181
Bibliography	p. 199
Index	p. 225
About the Contributors	p. 235
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