Between History and Histories : : The Making of Silences and Commemorations / / ed. by Gerald Sider, Gavin Smith.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Algazi, Gadi,; Cohen, David William,; Hausen, Karin,; Lamphere, Louise,; Ludtke, Alf,; Medick, Hans,; Odhiambo, E.S. Atieno,; Sarkar, Sumit,; Schneider, Jane,; Schneider, Peter,; Sider, Gerald,; Smith, Gavin,; Trouillot, Michel-Rolph,
• HerausgeberIn: Sider, Gerald,; Smith, Gavin,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)

Since the 1980s historians have been influenced by two anthropological concepts: cultural distance and awareness of small-scale interactions. Recent work, however, has shifted away from these notions. We now see that cultures cannot be studied as units with internal coherence and that the microcosm does not represent a cultural whole.This book proposes an alternative. Differentiation is the keyword that lets us focus on ruptures, contradiction, and change within a society. It drives us to recognize many different histories as opposed to one official history. The case studies in Between History and Histories use this new approach in historical anthropology to examine how certain events are silenced in the shadow of others that are commemorated by monuments, ceremonies, documents, and story-telling. The first set of studies explores cases around the world where the official construction of the past has been contested. The second set describes the silences voiced as a result of these disputes.For students, this collection provides a useful overview of interaction between two disciplines. For historians and anthropologists, it offers a new vision of how history is produced.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. History and Histories -- Silencing the Past: Layers of Meaning in the Haitian Revolution -- Against Experience: The Struggles for History, Tradition, and Hope among a Native American People -- Pandora's History: Central Peruvian Peasants and the Re-covering of the Past -- Renaissance and Kaliyuga: Time, Myth, and History in Colonial Bengal -- The 'Day of National Mourning' in Germany -- Part II. Silences and Commemorations -- Histories of Mourning: Flowers and Stones for the War Dead, Confusion for the Living - Vignettes from East and West Germany -- 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 -- Lords Ask, Peasants Answer: Making Traditions in Late-Medieval Village Assemblies -- From Peasant Wars to Urban 'Wars': The Anti-Mafia Movement in Palermo -- Work and the Production of Silence -- The So-Called Laichingen Hunger Chronicle -- Further Thoughts on the Production of History -- Contributors