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    Title
    Memory and Methodology
    Authors and contributors
    Edited by Susannah Radstone
    Physical properties
    Format: Paperback
    Number of pages: 240
    Width: 140 mm
    Height: 216 mm
    Thickness: 12 mm
    Weight: 283 g
    Audience
    College/higher education
    General/trade
    Professional and scholarly
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9781859732021
    ISBN 10: 185973202X
    Classifications
    BISAC category code: SEL030000
    Dewey: 153.12
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: S2.3
    BISAC category code: SOC019000
    LC Classification: 00708837
    BICMainSubject: JH
    BISAC category code: SOC026000
    Dewey: 153.12
    BISAC category code: SOC002010
    BISAC category code: PHI014000
    Illustrations note
    black & white illustrations
    Publisher
    Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
    Imprint name
    Berg Publishers
    Publication date
    01 April 2000
    Publication City/Country
    London/GB
    Main description
    The increasing centrality of memory to work being done across a wide range of disciplines has brought along with it vexed questions and far-reaching changes in the way knowledge is pursued. This timely collection provides a forum for demonstrating how various disciplines are addressing these concerns. Is an historian's approach to memory similar to that of theorists in media or cultural studies, or are their understandings in fact contradictory? Which methods of analysis are most appropriate in which contexts? What are the relations between individual and social memory? Why should we study memory and how can it enrich other research? What does its study bring to our understanding of subjectivity, identity and power? In addressing these knotty questions, Memory and Methodology showcases a rich and diverse range of research on memory. Leading scholars in anthropology, history, film and cultural studies address topics including places of memory; trauma, film and popular memory; memory texts; collaborative memory work and technologies of memory. This timely and interdisciplinary study represents a major contribution to our understanding of how memory is shaping contemporary academic research and of how people shape and are shaped by memory.
    Biographical note
    Susannah Radstone University of East London
    Promotional headline
    Also available in hardback, 9781859732960 GBP50.00 (April, 2000)
    Review quote
    'A growing area of research in histiography is the study of memory and its role in the production of knowledge. Two pressing issues are the status of current research into memory, and how memory helps form research. The nine essays in Memory and Methodology address these issues.'Religious Studies Review'Thoughtful and theoretically sophisticated.'Anthropological Theory'An exciting yet daunting journey ... Memory and Methodology stretches the boundaries of scholarship.'American Ethnologist