Research Methods for Memory Studies [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910789594003321
• Autore: Keightley Emily
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Edinburgh, GBR, : Edinburgh University Press, 20130501; Edinburgh University Press
• ISBN: 1-78402-331-0; 0-7486-8347-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Collana: Research methods for the arts and humanities Research methods for memory studies
• Classificazione: MR 2000
• Disciplina: 153.120721
• Soggetti: REFERENCE; Research; Memory - Methodology - Research; Learning; Methods; Investigative Techniques; Science; Mental Processes; Natural Science Disciplines; Memory; Research Design; Social Sciences; Psychology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Methodological Premises and Purposes -- SECTION ONE. Memory and Identity -- Chapter 1. Autobiographical Memory -- Chapter 2. Oral History and Remembering -- SECTION TWO. Qualities of Memory -- Chapter 3. Experience and Memory -- Chapter 4. Between Official and Vernacular Memory -- SECTION THREE. Media and Memory -- Chapter 5. Televised Remembering -- Chapter 6. Vernacular Remembering -- SECTION FOUR. Locations of Memory -- Chapter 7. Memoryscapes and Multi-; Sited Methods -- Chapter 8. Ethnicity and Memory -- SECTION FIVE. Disturbed Memory -- Chapter 9. Painful Pasts -- Chapter 10. Disrupted Childhoods -- SECTION SIX. Confessing and Witnessing -- Chapter 11. Apologia -- Chapter 12. Testimony -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The first textbook on research methods and methodological questions in memory studiesGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748645954','ISBN:9780748645961','ISBN:9780748683475']);This guide provides students and researchers with a clear set of outlines and discussions of particular methods of research in memory studies. It offers not only expert appraisals of a range of techniques, approaches and perspectives in memory studies, but also focuses on key questions of methodology in order to help bring unity and coherence to this new field of study.Key Features:Investigates community remembering and memory in personal narrativesExplores the localisation of official national memoryAttends to painful pasts and disrupted memoryExamines vernacular remembering and personalised mediaFocuses on the production of social memory in the mediaAnalyses the dynamics of remembering in public confessions"