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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : Melchior, Inge Leonarda Johanna (1985-....)
Titre(s) : Guardians of living history [Texte imprimé] : an ethnography of Post-Soviet memory making in Estonia / Inge Melchior
Publication : Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, copyright 2020
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (368 pages) : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection : Heritage and memory studies ; 9
Lien à la collection : Heritage and memory studies
Note(s) : Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Dec 2020)
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
Sujet(s) : Caractère national estonien
Postcommunisme -- Estonie
Mémoire collective -- Estonie
Ethnologie -- Estonie
Indice(s) Dewey :
947.980 86 (23e éd.) = Histoire - Estonie - 1991-....
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9789048541430. - ISBN 9048541433. - ISBN 9789462989023 (erroné) (hardback)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb465684295
Notice n° :
FRBNF46568429
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction : persisting pasts in the margins of Europe ; Making an emotional 'history
of the people' ; On the margins of history : good old Soviet times ; Personal memories
becoming national history ; Postmemory : the inherited obligation to secure the future
; Committed to the past : memory activists in search of dignity and justice ; WWII
on the periphery of Europe : a contested chapter ; Conclusion : guardians of living
history.
