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How do societies remember their past? And how did they do sobefore the age of computers, printing, writing? This book takesstock of earlier work on memory in the fields of history and thesocial sciences. Our collection also takes a new look at how pastand present social groups have memorialized events and renderedthem durable through materializations: contributors ask howprocesses and incidents perceived as negative and disruptive arenonetheless constitutive of group identities. Papers alsocontrast the monumentalizing treatment given to singular eventsimbued with a hegemonic meaning to more localized, diverse memoryplaces and networks. As case studies show, such memoryscapesinvite divergent, multivocal and subversive narratives. Variouskinds of these imagined geographies lend themselves to practicesof manipulation, preservation and control. The temporal scope ofthe volume reaches from the late Neolithic to the recent past,resulting in a long-term and multi-focal perspective thatdemonstrates how the perception of past events changes, acquiresnew layers and is molded by different groups at different pointsin time. As several contributions show, these manipulations ofthe past do not always produce the anticipated results, however.Attempts at "post-factual history" are countered by the sociallydistributed, but spatially and materially anchored nature of thevery process of memorialization. --- In der Reihe BERLIN STUDIESOF THE ANCIENT WORLD erscheinen Monographien und Sammelbändealler altertumswissenschaftlichen Disziplinen. Die Publikationengehen aus der Arbeit des Exzellenzclusters "Topoi. The Formationand Transformation of Space and Knowledge in AncientCivilizations" hervor, einem Forschungsverbund der FreienUniversität Berlin und der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin sowieden Partnerinstitutionen Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie derWissenschaften, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte und Stiftung PreußischerKulturbesitz. Die Reihe ist Bestandteil der PublikationsplattformEdition Topoi. Alle Bände der Reihe sind elektronisch unter www.edition-topoi.org verfügbar.
