E-Book, Englisch, Band 9, 392 Seiten
Reihe: Heritage and Memory Studies
Melchior Guardians of Living History
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-90-485-4143-0
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
An Ethnography of Post-Soviet Memory Making in Estonia
E-Book, Englisch, Band 9, 392 Seiten
Reihe: Heritage and Memory Studies
ISBN: 978-90-485-4143-0
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Guardians of Living History: An Ethnography of Post-Soviet Memory Making in Estonia interrogates how people living in a society with an extremely complicated, violent past, only a short history of independence, and a desire to belong to Europe engage with the past, both within their families and as members of a national community. In line with other scholarship on memory, this book shows that many Estonians desire an established collective story, as they live in a society where their national identity is quite regularly under threat. At the same time however, that same closure is perceived to pose a threat to the survival of Estonian culture and independence. Guardians of Living History provides an intimate insight into the lives of Estonians from the countryside, former deportees, young intellectuals, and memory activists, who all in their own ways act as guardians of a national history: a history which they wish to keep alive, apolitical, and as close to their family stories as possible.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PREFACE INTRODUCTION: PERSISTING PASTS IN THE MARGINS OF EUROPE PART 1: THE MAKING OF ESTONIAN HISTORY CHAPTER 1: MAKING AN EMOTIONAL "HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE" PART 2: THE MEANING OF CLOSURE CHAPTER 2: ON THE MARGINS OF HISTORY: GOOD OLD SOVIET TIMES CHAPTER 3: PERSONAL MEMORIES BECOMING NATIONAL HISTORY CHAPTER 4: POSTMEMORY: THE INHERITED OBLIGATION TO SECURE THE FUTURE CHAPTER 5: COMMITTED TO THE PAST: MEMORY ACTIVISTS IN SEARCH OF DIGNITY AND JUSTICE PART 3: CLOSURE AND A SIGNIFICANT OTHER CHAPTER 6 WWII ON THE PERIPHERY OF EUROPE: A CONTESTED CHAPTER CONCLUSION: GUARDIANS OF LIVING HISTORY LIST OF INFORMANTS FULL REFERENCE LIST INDEX