Melchior Guardians of Living History

An Ethnography of Post-Soviet Memory Making in Estonia
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-90-485-4143-0
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 9, 392 Seiten

Reihe: Heritage and Memory Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Melchior, Inge

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Melchior, Inge
Dr Inge Melchior defended her PhD thesis in the Social and Cultural Anthropology department of the VU University Amsterdam in 2015. She has published on her ethnographic fieldwork in Estonia as well as on her later applied research experience. She currently works at Maastricht University.