Lost Communities, Living Memories

Lost Communities, Living Memories
Author: Sean Field
Publisher: New Africa Books
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780864864994

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Between 1913 and 1989 some four million South Africans were forcibly removed from their homes to enforce residential segregation along racial lines. This study records and interprets the memories of some of the Capetonians who were relocated as a result of the infamous Group Areas Act. Former resients of Windermere, Tramway Road in Sea Point, District Six, Lower Claremont, and Simon's Town narrate their experiences.

Oral History and Public Memories

Oral History and Public Memories
Author: Paula Hamilton
Publisher: Temple University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2009-08-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1592131425

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Oral history is inherently about memory, and when oral history interviews are used "in public," they invariably both reflect and shape public memories of the past. Oral History and Public Memories is the only book that explores this relationship, in fourteen case studies of oral history's use in a variety of venues and media around the world. Readers will learn, for example, of oral history based efforts to reclaim community memory in post-apartheid Cape Town, South Africa; of the role of personal testimony in changing public understanding of Japanese American history in the American West; of oral history's value in mapping heritage sites important to Australia's Aboriginal population; and of the way an oral history project with homeless people in Cleveland, Ohio became a tool for popular education. Taken together, these original essays link the well established practice of oral history to the burgeoning field of memory studies.

Community Memories

Community Memories
Author: Winona L. Fletcher
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2003-11-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780916968304

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"While this is a glimpse of Frankfort's African American community, it has much in common with other Black communities, especially those in the South. Although much in the collection that produced this work - both photographic and oral history - is nostalgic, it ultimately demonstrates that change is constant, producing both negative and positive results."--BOOK JACKET.

Owning Memory

Owning Memory
Author: Jeannette A. Bastian
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2003-08-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0313052379

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This book examines the relationships between archives, communities and collective memory through both the lens of a postcolonial society, the United States Virgin Islands, a former colony of Denmark, now a United States territory, and through an archival perspective on the relationship between communities and the creation of records. Because the historical records of the Virgin Islands reside primarily in Denmark and the United States, Virgin Islanders have had limited access to the primary sources of their history and this has affected both their ability to write their own history and to construct their collective memory. But while a strong oral tradition, often in competition with the written tradition, influences the ways in which this community remembers, it also underlines the dilemma of interpreting the history of the colonized through the records of the colonizer. The story of the Virgin Islands and its search for its memory includes an exploration of how this community, through public commemorations and folk tradition has formed its memory to date, and the role that archives play in this process. Interwoven throughout is a broader analysis of the place of archives and archivists in helping communities find their history. The book is exceptionally well written and will appeal to historians, archivists and those interested in the Carribean.

Heritage Formation and the Senses in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Heritage Formation and the Senses in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Author: Duane Jethro
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2020-05-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000182185

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In this book, Duane Jethro creates a framework for understanding the role of the senses in processes of heritage formation. He shows how the senses were important for crafting and successfully deploying new, nation-building heritage projects in South Africa during the postapartheid period. The book also highlights how heritage dynamics are entangled in evocative, changing sensory worlds.Jethro uses five case studies that correlate with the five main Western senses. Examples include touch and the ruination of a series of art memorials; how vision was mobilised to assert the authority of the state-sponsored Freedom Park project in Pretoria; how smell memories of apartheid-era social life in Cape Town informed contemporary struggles for belonging after forced removal; how taste informed debates about the attempted rebranding of Heritage Day as barbecue day; and how the sound of the vuvuzela, popularized during the FIFA 2010 Football World Cup, helped legitimize its unofficial African and South African heritage status.This book makes a valuable contribution to the field of sensory studies and, with its focus on aesthetics and material culture, is in sync with the broader material turn in the humanities.

Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism, Volume 13

Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism, Volume 13
Author: Stanley E. Porter
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2018-09-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1532663471

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Volume 13 2017 This is the thirteenth volume of the hard-copy edition of a journal that has been published online (www.jgrchj.net) since 2000. As they appear, the hard-copy editions replace the online materials. The scope of JGRChJ is the texts, language and cultures of the Greco-Roman world of early Christianity and Judaism. The papers published in JGRChJ are designed to pay special attention to the larger picture of politics, culture, religion and language, engaging as well with modern theoretical approaches.

The Individual in African History

The Individual in African History
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2020-03-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004407820

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This volume investigates the development of biographical study in African history. Preceded by an introduction on the relevance of biography in history, case studies deal with methodological insights, personas living through societal transition, and biographical subjects and their discursive worlds.

Oral History, Community, and Displacement

Oral History, Community, and Displacement
Author: S. Field
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2012-02-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137011483

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This book uses oral history methodology to record stories of people who experienced the brunt of racist forced removals in the city of Cape Town, South Africa. Through life stories and community case studies, it traces the human impact of this disruptive, often violent feature of apartheid's social engineering.

Memory Culture and the Contemporary City

Memory Culture and the Contemporary City
Author: Uta Staiger
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2009-10-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0230246958

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These essays by leading figures from academia, architecture and the arts consider how cultures of memory are constructed for and in contemporary cities. They take Berlin as a key case of a historically burdened metropolis, but also extend to other global cities: Jerusalem, Buenos Aires, Cape Town and New York.

The Routledge Handbook of Memory and Place

The Routledge Handbook of Memory and Place
Author: Sarah De Nardi
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 673
Release: 2019-08-20
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0429631642

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This Handbook explores the latest cross-disciplinary research on the inter-relationship between memory studies, place, and identity. In the works of dynamic memory, there is room for multiple stories, versions of the past and place understandings, and often resistance to mainstream narratives. Places may live on long after their physical destruction. This collection provides insights into the significant and diverse role memory plays in our understanding of the world around us, in a variety of spaces and temporalities, and through a variety of disciplinary and professional lenses. Many of the chapters in this Handbook explore place-making, its significance in everyday lives, and its loss. Processes of displacement, where people’s place attachments are violently torn asunder, are also considered. Ranging from oral history to forensic anthropology, from folklore studies to cultural geographies and beyond, the chapters in this Handbook reveal multiple and often unexpected facets of the fascinating relationship between place and memory, from the individual to the collective. This is a multi- and intra-disciplinary collection of the latest, most influential approaches to the interwoven and dynamic issues of place and memory. It will be of great use to researchers and academics working across Geography, Tourism, Heritage, Anthropology, Memory Studies, and Archaeology.