The Labyrinth of Memory: Ethnographic JourneysMarea Teski, Jacob Climo This work is a study of the various ways in which individuals and groups use memory narratives to express and form the quality of their lives. Activities of remembering, forgetting, reconstructing, metamorphosizing, and vicariously remembering are described for cultures in Latin America, Africa, Europe, Canada, and the United States. The authors find that the territory of memory is bounded by neither space nor time, but exists in the minds of individuals and groups. Memory changes as individuals and cultures change, forming a dialogue between the past and the present in response to present and changing needs. Memories of dislocation, war, torture, famine, and separation are given particular attention for the way they create meaning in the present and future lives of those who remember and share their memories. |
Contents
Memories of DistantLiving Children | 13 |
The Evolution | 27 |
The Remembering Consciousness | 49 |
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adolescent adult alienated children Anthropology Asian American body camp Chagga chapter children of immigrants citizenship Climo collective memory conflict constructed created Çri culture discourse distant economic edited elderly children emotional Esser and Korte Ethnic Germans Executive Order 9066 exile experience feelings foreign labor foreign workers forgetting Germany's Guatemalan guestworkers Herbert Holocaust Hosokawa identity images individual initiation integration internment interpretation Issei Japanese American Japanese American community Jewish Jews jus sanguinis Kenyan Kikuyu Kilimanjaro language living Mau Mau Maya memory room Micmac mother mregho mregho instruction Nazi Nisei official history pain parents past petroglyphs Poland Poles Polish political present problems Räthzel recall refugees relationships remember represent ritual Sansei silence social society South Philadelphia speaking Yiddish story survivors symbolic testimonial narrative things traditions University Press vicarious memories victims violence well-adapted World World War II Yiddish language yiddishkeit York
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