Between History and Histories : : The Making of Silences and Commemorations / / ed. by Gerald Sider, Gavin Smith.
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...
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| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
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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