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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Memory practices"”.
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The Roots of Remembrance : Tracing the Memory Practices of the Children of Far East Prisoners of War
… through the life course, I show that the memory practices of the children of Far East POWs had psychosocial roots in the captivity experiences of their fathers. For some, childhood was coloured by overt physical or psychological trauma; for others, what passed as a ‘normal’ upbringing led …
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Are You Really There? The Mediatized Experience of the 21st Century Concert-Goer
… the concert experience involves modifications to memory practices, understandings of the concert experience, and interpersonal interaction within the venue. The combination of a content analysis, participant observation, and interview analysis, examined qualitatively and quantitatively, found that …
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Tragedies, Tourism, and the Making of Commemorative Places
… and museums as a means through which identities, memory, and historicity are constructed over time and in space, I focus ethnographically on individuals' use of such culture rather than limit my analysis solely to the objects and images. This approach contributes to our understanding of identity, …
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PAPER PEOPLE AND DIGITAL MEMORY: RECREATING THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE IN JAPAN
… which mark public spheres in Japan, writing practices are found to reflect multiple nuanced identity performances in which the varied use of the cultural principles uchi/soto (inside/outside) and ura/omote (back/front) create parallel publics. Constructed by authors and recognized by readers, …
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Landscapes Of Memory In German Realist Writing
Landscape description and enactments of memory are two common features in the fictional prose works of German Realism, a literary period spanning roughly from 1850 to 1890. Although scholars have paid much attention to questions of space and time in this literary period, a systematic study on the …
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Temple Histories and Communities of Practice in Early Maya Society: Archaeological Investigations at Caobal, Petén, Guatemala
… a series of actions, decisions, and repeated practices, which contribute to the long sequences of construction observed in the archaeological record. This dissertation examines the history of temple construction and architectural changes at Caobal, a small center located near Ceibal in the …
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"""Ceaușescu's children:"" the making and unmaking of Romania's last socialist generation (1965-2010)"
… with an ethnography of post-socialist memory regimes. It explores the ideological representations, institutional structures, and remembered experiences of socialist childhood through the lens of Romania’s “last socialist generation,” an age cohort who was largely born and socialized …
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Unsettled Landscapes: The Narrative and Material Capacities of Landscape in the Post-War Croatian Hinterlands
… of much research on the dynamics of conflict and memory within the built environment. This dissertation proposes an expansion beyond this attention to urban, social and cultural memory-scapes, a shift in the frame toward landscape, focussing on the historical violence in Croatia and its legacy for …
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'Tense Pasts, Present Tensions': Postcolonial Memoryscapes and the Memorialisation of the Second World War in Perak, Malaysia
… is memorialised in Perak, Malaysia. It considers memoryscapes (or memory practices and sites) within the state dedicated to the war, established not only by state agencies but also grassroots actors. In terms of findings, the thesis first highlights how the Perak state has sought to …
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The Many Afterlives of the Second World War in the Indian Northeast
… in the form of personal, familial and collective memory, a vibrant vernacular material culture that is at once local and transnational, and interesting efforts at the memorialisation of a war that was, in more than one way, an imperial war. These memories also appear in the form of literary and …