Recorriendo la Memoria / Touring Memory

This volume is a collection of papers given at a session at the JIA 2009 conference. The thread of the contributions focuses on two concepts: Memory and Archaeology. The word "Memory" refers to the past, our individual memories and the collective ones. "Wander around memory" (Recorrer la memoria) is a Spanish phrase that means "to think in order to remember what happened". Now that retrieving (historical) memory is changing from being a commitment to being a fashion, it is more needed to "wander around memory" to set our position as professionals in archaeology. All the contributions in this volume share a common idea: the analysis of "memories" generated from conflict. Too frequently, collective memory brews around different traumatic events framed in armed conflicts. Conflict generates memory, but memory generates conflict too, feeding a vicious circle manifested in some of the processes to retrieve historical memory that are still open today.

Product details

• Authors: Jaime Almansa Sanchez
• Assisted by: Jaime Almansa Sánchez (Editor)
• Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd
• Languages: Spanish
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2010
• EAN: 9781407307121
• ISBN: 978-1-4073-0712-1
• No. of pages: 118
• Dimensions: 210 mm x 297 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 476 g
• Series: BAR International; BAR International Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)