Spirit of Mourning - History, Memory and the Body

Informationen zum Autor Paul Connerton is a Research Associate in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and an Honorary Fellow in the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies at the University of London. His recent publications include How Modernity Forgets (Cambridge University Press, 2009). Klappentext Discusses how the memory of traumatic events! such as genocide and torture! is inscribed within human bodies. Zusammenfassung How is the memory of traumatic events! such as genocide and torture! inscribed within human bodies? In this book! Paul Connerton discusses social and cultural memory by looking at the role of mourning in the production of histories and the reticence of silence across many different cultures. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The birth of histories from the spirit of mourning; 2. Seven types of forgetting; 3. Silences; 4. Spatial orientation; 5. Tradition as conversation and tradition as bodily re-enactment; 6. Tattoos, masks, skin; 7. Emphatic, mimetic and cosmic projection.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Paul Connerton, Paul (University of Cambridge) Connerton, Connerton Paul
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 29.09.2011
• EAN: 9781107011397
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01139-7
• Pagine: 190
• Categorie: Guide e manuali > Libri sul benessere, vita quotidiana > Condotta di vita, auto-realizzazione; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze sociali, tematiche generali; memory, Sociology, Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social issues & processes, Social, group or collective psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Sociology: death and dying