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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457372903321

Autore

Connerton Paul

Titolo

The spirit of mourning : history, memory and the body / / Paul Connerton [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-139-15302-1

1-107-22884-0

1-283-34113-1

9786613341136

1-139-16058-3

0-511-98451-0

1-139-16158-X

1-139-15601-2

1-139-15777-9

1-139-15953-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 178 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

155.9/37

Soggetti

Bereavement - Psychological aspects

Memory - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: 1. The birth of histories from the spirit of mourning; 2. Seven types of forgetting; 3. Silences; 4. Spatial orientation; 5. Tradition as conversation and tradition as bodily re-enactment; 6. Tattoos, masks, skin; 7. Emphatic, mimetic and cosmic projection.

Sommario/riassunto

How is the memory of traumatic events, such as genocide and torture, inscribed within human bodies? In this book, Paul Connerton discusses social and cultural memory by looking at the role of mourning in the production of histories and the reticence of silence across many different cultures. In particular he looks at how memory is conveyed in gesture, bodily posture, speech and the senses - and how bodily memory, in turn, becomes manifested in cultural objects such as



tattoos, letters, buildings and public spaces. It is argued that memory is more cultural and collective than it is individual. This book will appeal to researchers and students in anthropology, linguistic anthropology, sociology, social psychology and philosophy.