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Excavating Memory explores memory as contested social practice in the present rather than as a passive recollection of the past. Through a diverse set of material and discursive strategies, memory is seen as a complex process that involves remembering and forgetting, erasure and inscription, absence and presence. It is from the folds between remembering and forgetting that sites of memory emerge. Taking a cue from archaeology, the collection of essays in this volume parses the multiple layers of meaning and tenuous lines of power that memory work produces. Offering a variety of approaches to t ... More
Keywords: Sites of Memory, Anthropology, Archaeology, Sociology, History, Philosophy, Archival Studies, colonial landscapes, Testimony
Print publication date: 2016 | Print ISBN-13: 9780813061603 |
Published to Florida Scholarship Online: September 2016 | DOI:10.5744/florida/9780813061603.001.0001 |
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