This collection of case studies from around the world uses a new approach in historical anthropology, one that focuses on heterogeneity within cultures rather than coherence to explain how we commemorate certain events, while silencing others.
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This collection of case studies from around the world uses a new approach in historical anthropology, one that focuses on heterogeneity within cultures rather than coherence to explain how we commemorate certain events, while silencing others.
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Add this copy of Between History and Histories: the Making of Silences to cart. $82.00, very good condition, Sold by Expatriate Bookshop rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Svendborg, DENMARK, published 1997 by University of Toronto Press.
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Minor rubbing. VG. 23x15cm, ix, 314 pp. Contains 12 papers. includes: M. -R. Trouillot "Silencing the Past: Layers of Meaning in the Haitian Revolution"; G. Sider "Against Experience: The Struggles for History, Tradition & Hope among a Native American People"; G. Smith "Pandora's History: Central Peruvian Peasants & the Re-covering of the Past"; S. Sarkar "Renaissance & Kailyuga: Time, Myth & History in Colonial Bengal"; K. Hausen "The 'Day of National Mourning' in Germany"; A. Lüdtke "Histories of Mourning: Flowers & Stones for the War Dead, Confusion for the Living: Vignettes from East & West Germany"; D.W. Cohen &E.S.A. Odhiambo "Silences of the Living, Orations of the Dead: The Struggle in Kenya for S.M. Otieno's Body, 20 December 1986 to 23 May 1987"; G. Algazi "Lords Ask, Peasants Answer: Making Traditions in Late-Medieval Village Assemblies"; J. Shcneider & P. Schneider "From Peasant Wars to Urban 'Wars': The Anti-Mafia Movement in Palermo"; L. Lamphere "Work & the Production of Silence"; H. Medick "The So-Called Laichingen Hunger Chronicle: An Example of the Fiction of the Factual, the Traps of Evidence & the Possiblities of Proof in the Writing of History"; D.W. Cohen " Further Thoughts on the Production of History".