scholarly journals „Čia pas mus“ – kraštietiškumas Pietryčių Lietuvoje: Šalčininkų rajono atvejis

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (29) 2020 ◽  
pp. 81-104
Author(s):  
Vidmantas Vyšniauskas
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
Cultural Boundaries

‘Here with us.’ Regionalism in Southeast Lithuania: The Case of the Šalčininkai District The different ways in which inhabitants of the Šalčininkai district identify with their land are analysed in this article. It is argued that the socio-cultural memory has the biggest impact on constructing and maintaining a regional identity. Some different ways in which local inhabitants construct cultural boundaries are researched. Theoretical connections between social memory, narratives and regional identity are presented and discussed in the article. Local inhabitants use two identification strategies: 1) identifying oneself as ‘local’; 2) identifying oneself as ‘local’ and possessing one clearly defined ethnic identity. Key words: regional identity, social memory, narrative, regionalism.

scholarly journals On Memory of Plates and Dishes

Fluminensia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-136
Author(s):  
Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
Literary Fiction ◽  
Western World ◽  
Individual Identity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common

The aim of the article is to discuss how elements of food narratives meals and kitchen tools used for cooking are used in order to consolidate and shape the Croatian cultural memory, especially in the context of its Mediterranean heritage.For this reason, the texts by Veljko Barbieri, collected in the four volumes under the common and significant title Kuharski kanconijer. Gurmanska sjećanja Mediterana, are analysed. His circum-culinary narratives are a combination of encyclopaedic knowledge, references to historical and literary sources, personal memories and literary fiction. They can be easily inscribed in the Croatian (collective and individual) identity discourse since they are able to strengthen the collective (either national and supranational, or geo-regional) identity, and to construct the cultural memory. They also show Croatia's affiliation to the Western world along with its cultural-civilization rooting in antiquity, the Mediterranean region and Christianity, thus forming a part of the founding memory that develops a narrative about the very beginnings of Croatian presence on this land. The gastronomic narratives serve to create the cultural memory and this version of history which is to stabilize the social identity described by Pierre Nora and Andreas Huyssen. Through his stories, Barbieri shapes memory based on the representation of the past. In the analysed narratives, the memory carriers are dishes and plates which find reference to the oldest history of Croatia rendered by myths and other narratives. Associated with dishes, the pots enable the narrator to recall the past and the identity coded in individual dishes. They also participate in the processes of repeating, storage and remembering which generate a symbiotic relationship between man and thing. The memory carriers that is, food and plates depicted in Barbieri's culinary narratives do not convey their content in a neutral way, but construct their marked images.

De verbeelding van moeras en veen

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 292-310
Author(s):  
Lesley Penné ◽  
Arvi Sepp
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
German Language ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Border Regions ◽  
Language Area ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract The Representation of Marsh and Bog: Figurations of the Marshy Soil as a Topos of Community in Contemporary German-Language Belgian Literature Literature from border regions is often characterised by a specific transcultural poetics that reflects the liminal as discourse and experience. In contemporary German-language prose from East Belgium (‘Ostbelgien’), the topological representation of swamp and moor occupies an important place. We will show how swamp and moor express the complex definition of national and regional identity of the German-language area in Belgium and become relevant topoi in regard to cultural memory. Literature can be seen as a privileged medium of criticism for expressing the pressures of the unspoken and the closed and for initiating intra-community public discussions. Through a cultural-historical analysis of the various figurations of bog and moor, we will examine how the relationship between landscape and community is represented and conceived in contemporary Germanophone Belgian literature.

Harald Wezler som erindringsforsker: En viderefører af Halbwachs-Assmann-traditionen?

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Eric Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Social Factors ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
The State ◽  
Memory Research ◽  
Term Memory ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Theoretical Analyses

Bernard Eric Jensen: Harald Welzer’s Approach to Memory Research An analysis of the approach to memory research found in the writings of Harald Welzer is presented. At the present time, Welzer is head of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Memory Research at Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut in Essen, Germany. He has contributed both empirical surveys and theoretical analyses to memory research during the last decade. At a first glance, Welzer’s approach appears to belong neatly within the tradition of memory research that was originally founded by the French sociologist Maurice Halbwachs, and which Aleida and Jan Assmann have been seeking to revive and develop since the 1980’s by introducing concepts such as “communicative and cultural memory” as well as “storage memory” (Speicher-Gedächtnis) and “use memory” (Funktions-Gedächtnis). On closer inspection, however, it transpires that Welzer’s approach cannot be characterised as a mere refinement of the approach taken by the Assmanns. This is partly because Welzer is attempting to develop an interdisciplinary approach, focused on the intricate relationships between biological, psychological and social factors in ongoing memory work. Apart from focussing of the work of Welzer, this article also seeks to highlight the state of “terminological anarchy” that characterises memory research at the present time, making it next to impossible to make direct comparisons between different theoretical approaches. This state of anarchy becomes transparent as soon as one begins to scrutinize the meanings of those adjectives, which nowadays are fixed to the term memory – for instance, “communicative”, “cultural”, “historical” and/or “social” memory. 

Palaeolithic Art as Cultural Memory: a Case Study of the Aurignacian Art of Southwest Germany

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Porr
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Individual Variations ◽  
Active Individual ◽  
Different Characteristics ◽  
Southwest Germany ◽  
Palaeolithic Art

This article examines aspects of social memory in the Aurignacian mobiliary art of southwest Germany. An analytical distinction is introduced between cultural and communicative memory with different characteristics and functions in Palaeolithic social life. It is argued that the statuettes are reflections of cultural memory, but also stood in a complex and unstable relationship with the flexible conditions of everyday life. The figurative objects are not passive reproductions of collective ideas. Rather, they have to be seen as products of an active individual and intense concern with the field of meanings and associations of cultural memory, and consequently represent individual variations of a socially shared meaningful ideology

scholarly journals Tekstowe figury pamiętania w preambule konstytucji a kształtowanie pamięci kulturowej narodu

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Kowalczyk
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Real Potential ◽  
Methodological Basis ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Republic

The article describes the possibility of storing and reconstructing collective memory in the text of the preamble to the Constitution. The source material, which was analyzed, was the introduction to the currently binding constitution of the Republic of Poland. The aim of the study was to identify and describe fragments of the preamble, having a real potential of influence on shaping the social memory of the community. The methodology of cultural memory, proposed by Aleida and Jan Assmann, became a methodological basis for the conducted observation, with particular emphasis on the assumptions about the figures of memory, that is facts or objects, recalling memories or imaginations about memories.

scholarly journals «Восславим землю Акпарса»: легендарный князь в современном фольклоре и этнорегиональной идентичности горных марийцев

2021 ◽  
pp. 275-287
Author(s):  
Герман Юрьевич Устьянцев
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
Administrative Region ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Scientific Discourses ◽  
The Hill

На основе полевых материалов автор исследует репрезентацию этнорегиональной идентичности горных марийцев в моделях освоения, трансляции и интерпретации фольклорной традиции, связанной с образом легендарного правителя Акпарса. Соотношение имени и функций сотенного князя рассмотрены в текстах несказочной прозы (легендах, преданиях), интервью, медийном и научном дискурсах, коммеморативных практиках современных горных марийцев. Автор выделяет две интерпретативные модели описания Акпарса в различных дискурсах: историко-реалистическую и мифологическую. Образ Акпарса выступает в качестве инструмента формирования этнорегиональной идентичности и одновременно ее символа. Бытование фольклорного персонажа демонстрирует связь между принадлежностью респондентов к отдельной этнической группе марийцев, административному региону их проживания и акцентуализацией «своего» специфического фольклора. Автор также рассматривает этносимволическую роль указанного персонажа в утверждении дихотомии «свой–чужой» в контексте аутентичности народной традиции: Акпарс выступает в качестве маркера горномарийской культуры как для самих горных марийцев, так и для соседних групп иноэтничного населения. On the basis of ethnographic data, the author examines the representation of the ethno-regional identity of the Hill Mari people in the development, translation and interpretation of the folklore tradition concerning the legendary ruler Akpars. The correlation of the ruler’s name and functions is analyzed in the texts of non-fairy prose (legends), interviews, media and scientific discourses, and commemoral practices of the modern Hill Mari people. The author identifies two interpretative models of describing Akpars in different discourses: the historical-realistic and the mythological ones. The image of Akpars acts as a tool for the formation of ethnic identity and at the same time as its symbol. The existence of the folk character demonstrates an association between respondents’ belonging to a particular ethnic group of Mari people, their administrative region, and the accentuation of their “specific” folklore. The author also considers the ethnosymbolic role of this image in the strengthening the “we–they” dichotomy in the context of the folk authenticity: the character Akpars acts as a marker of the Hill Mari culture both for the Hill Maris themselves and for neighboring ethnic groups.

scholarly journals African Cultural Memory in Fred Khumalo’s Touch my Blood and its Metafictional Para-texts

2020 ◽  
pp. 002193472095938
Author(s):  
Michael Kgomotso Masemola
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
South African ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Black Studies ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Recent Issue ◽  
Literary Representation

This article gleans its momentum from Ronit Frenkel’s palimpsestic observation that the local and the global exist as “coeval discourses of signification in South African transitional literature,” with the intention to push the boundaries set in a recent issue of the Journal of Black Studies that carried a literature-inspired title, “Cultural Memory and Ethnic Identity Construction in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy” by Zhou Quan. The latter prompted a consideration whether a peculiarly South African literary representation of cultural memory is possible or not, or whether it is monolithic or multiplicitous. Therefore, partly in response, I introduce the transcendent idea of allochthonous memory, taking my cues from Molefi Kete Asante’s Kemet, Afrocentricity, and Knowledge where he elucidates that the Afrocentrist “seeks to uncover and use codes, paradigms, symbols, motifs, myths, and circles of discussion that reinforce the centrality of African ideals and values as a valid frame of reference for acquiring and examining data” (p. 6). One such paradigm is Allochthonous memory, which is here defined as a configuration of cultural memory that finds expression in references that are simultaneously intertextual, transnational, transcultural, and ethical.

Nilai-Nilai Perdamaian Pada Masyarakat Multikultural

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-28
Author(s):  
F. Feriyanto
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Community Activities ◽  
Cultural Boundaries ◽  
Ethnic And Cultural Identity

This article intends to describe a necessity for the presence of peace amidst the diversity of society. This diversity is now an inevitable, especially the depletion of cultural boundaries, and ethnic identity which fuses in the context of globalization. One of the potentials in this diversity is the emergence of conflicts of interest and conflicts in the name of primordial identity. The offer of a multicultural approach will recognize the potential and legitimacy of diversity and socio-cultural differences of each ethnic group. In this view both individuals and groups of various ethnicities can join the community, engage in societal cohesion without having to lose their ethnic and cultural identity, while at the same time still obtaining their rights to participate fully in various fields of community activities.

Forgetful Remembering: A Colonial Life in the Congo

Africa ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 489-504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Fabian
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
Memory Culture ◽  
Places Of Memory ◽  
The Town ◽  
Made In

AbstractSocial memory, cultural memory, culture as memory, and memory as culture, landscape and memory, places of memory, regimes of memory—all these have been prominent topics in cultural studies, also in anthropology; in this work, attention is usually paid to remembering. Based on several prior inquiries into popular historiography and local regimes of memory, this paper is an attempt to include forgetting in a model of ‘memory work'. What this entails is shown with ethnographic evidence, the recording of a conversation made in Lubumbashi in 1986 with one of the African pioneers of the town. The text in French and Swahili, accompanied by an English translation, is accessible at www2.fmg.uva.nl/lpca.

“He Who Owns the Trifels, Owns the Reich”: Nazi Medievalism and the Creation of the Volksgemeinschaft in the Palatinate

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabian Link ◽  
Mark W. Hornburg
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Nazi Regime ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Local Populace

AbstractThis article analyzes the interplay between Nazi cultural politics and regional identity in the Palatinate region of Germany through the lens of the Ludwig Siebert program. Created by Bavarian Minister-President Ludwig Siebert in the early 1930s to stimulate the regional construction industry, this program involved the conservation of medieval castles and ruins in Bavaria and the Palatinate. The renovation of these monuments, which had been central to the cultural memory and identity of Pfälzers since at least the nineteenth century, proved to be effective in mobilizing the local populace for Siebert's aims and, consequently, for the goals of the Nazi regime. Because its melding of cultural politics and regional identity helped to stabilize the regime in the Palatinate during its early years, the Siebert program provides a particularly illustrative microhistorical case study of the Nazi regime's mechanisms for creating the Volksgemeinschaft in the provinces. By focusing on the Palatinate town of Annweiler, which sits at the foot of the storied Trifels castle, a favored renovation project of Siebert's, this article offers a closely observed demonstration of these mechanisms at work.

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