scholarly journals Os ex-votos como mídias na transmissão e na preservação da memória social

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (42) ◽  
pp. 219
Author(s):  
Magali Do Nascimento Cunha

Este artigo, de caráter teórico, baseado em pesquisa bibliográfica, assentada nos estudos em Folkcomunicação, com as teorias de Luiz Beltrão, e na noção de memória cultural religiosa, com as ênfases defendidas por Jan Assmann, atenta para o caráter comunicativo da memória religiosa que abrange a articulação de experiências vividas e aprendizagens transmitidas. Destaque é dado ao lugar dos ex-votos, uma prática comum a vários grupos religiosos, de agradecimento por uma graça divina alcançada, interpretados aqui como veículos de transmissão e preservação da memória de uma localidade e de uma época. No trajeto metodológico é elaborada uma aplicação, por meio da apresentação da ampliação das tipologias utilizadas nos estudos de Folkcomunicação, proposta em tese de doutorado defendida por um dos autores deste estudo, como a indicação das possíveis formas de transmissão e preservação da memória social em cada tipo de ex-votos. Memória cultural religiosa; Folkcomunicação; Ex-votos. This article, of a theoretical nature, based on a bibliographical research, grounded on the studies in Folkcommunication, with the theories of Luiz Beltrão, and on the notion of religious cultural memory, with the emphasis defended by Jan Assmann, puts attention to the communicative character of the religious memory that encompasses the articulation of lived experiences and transmitted learning. The ex-votos are highlighted in the study, a common practice of various religious groups, of thanks for a divine grace achieved, interpreted here as vehicles of transmission and preservation of the memory of a locality and an time. In the methodological course, an application is elaborated, through the presentation of the extension of the typologies used in the studies of Folkcommunication, proposed in a doctoral dissertation defended by one of the authors of this study, as the indication of possible forms of transmission and preservation of social memory in each type of ex-votos. Religious cultural memory; Folkcommunication; Ex-votos. Este artigo teórico, basado en la investigación bibliográfica, referenciado en los estudios en Comunicación Popular, con las teorías de Luiz Beltrão, y en la noción de memoria cultural religiosa, con los énfasis defendidos por Jan Assmann, es atento al carácter comunicativo de la memoria. que engloba la articulación de experiencias vividas y aprendizajes transmitidos. Se destaca en el lugar de los exvotos, práctica común a diversos grupos religiosos, en agradecimiento por una gracia divina lograda, interpretada aquí como vehículos para transmitir y conservar la memoria de un lugar y un tiempo. En el camino metodológico, se elabora una aplicación, mediante la presentación de la ampliación de las tipologías utilizadas en los estudios de Comunicación Popular, propuesta en una tesis doctoral defendida por uno de los autores de este estudio, como indicación de las posibles vías de transmisión y preservación de la memoria social en cada tipo de exvotos. Memoria cultural religiosa; Comunicación popular; Exvotos.

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (29) 2020 ◽  
pp. 81-104
Author(s):  
Vidmantas Vyšniauskas

‘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.


Author(s):  
Bernard Eric Jensen

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. 


2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Porr

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


2020 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Kowalczyk

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.


Africa ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 489-504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Fabian

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.


Early China ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 19-108
Author(s):  
Maria Khayutina

AbstractThis article explores how the memory of the conquest of Shang and the rise of the first Zhou kings was transmitted during the early centuries of the Zhou dynasty, specifically as it was reflected in inscriptions on excavated bronze vessels and bells from the Western Zhou period (ca. mid-eleventh to early eighth century b.c.e.). Approaching these inscribed objects and their texts from the perspective of the theories of social memory and cultural memory reveals that commemorating the foundational past of the dynasty became part of an intentional policy of the Zhou royal house as early as the first half of the tenth century b.c.e. It demonstrates that by the mid-tenth century b.c.e., a stable narrative emphasizing Kings Wen 文 and Wu 武 as the founding fathers of the Zhou dynasty was established at the expense of King Cheng 成, whose role was gradually downplayed following the general logic of lineage organization, according to which the commemoration of the earliest common ancestors serves as the foundation of corporate integrity in a network of patrilineally related families. It shows that most of the men who included such commemorations in inscriptions indeed belonged to the royal patrilineal network, wherein they occupied the highest positions. It further exemplifies that the royal house cultivated the memory of the first kings using various media, including rituals, utensils, royal speeches, and inscriptions. From the analysis of such inscriptions, we can infer that that the foundational memory of the Zhou dynasty was usually reactivated in the context of political negotiations, some of which included addressing lineage outsiders. Finally, it shows that both the royal house and other metropolitan lineages modified the foundational narrative according to their current needs. This article thus contributes both to tracing the roots of the early Chinese historiographic tradition and to understanding memory production in a society as an ongoing process of negotiations and adaptations.


Author(s):  
Christi L. Weinhuff

Since immigrating to the United States in the early 1990s, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons has garnered praise as one of the most important artists to emerge from post-revolutionary Cuba. Campos-Pons’ oeuvre bears witness to issues central to the experience of diaspora populations. On view for the first time, the exhibit “Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons: MAMA/RECIPROCAL ENERGY” at the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery (October 12 – December 8, 2011) presents new works by Campos-Pons that attest to the ability of fragmented and seemingly dislocated elements of the artists’ lived experiences to coalesce into a multifaceted identity. The dynamic quest for selfhood demonstrated by the works rejects absolutes; rather, it fosters an interconnected network where issues such as gender, exile, dislocation, race, religion, and cultural memory play out in a reciprocal manner. This paper first establishes Campos-Pons’ early conceptual basis as an artist. What follows is an extensive exploration of the exhibit argued through a thematic dynamic that highlights the relationship of themes among and between the works. Finally, it suggests that while Campos-Pons’ conceptual basis retains its earliest formative notions, the shifting narrative that emerges from the exhibit and corresponding stylistic changes confirm the inclusion of the artists’ entire lived experiences in her artistic search for identity.


2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-246
Author(s):  
Norman Saadi Nikro

The thematic of “place” has since the work of Pierre Nora accrued much conceptual currency in social and cultural memory studies. Nora had defined place as lieu, formal remants of a vanishing notion of memory as social practice. Suggesting an alternative notion of place as milieu, the discussion focuses on social memory as proliferations of present-pasts.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tigran Simyan

The monograph examines the semiotic space of the interior and exterior of Yerevan State University. Particular attention is paid to the foyer of the main building, the structure of the university museum, cultural artifacts, as well as the exterior space, bas-reliefs, sculptures, cross-stones, a blossoming cross-staff, graffiti dedicated to those who died in Karabakh in 2016. The book can be useful for semiotics of culture, researchers of urban space, culturologists, religious scholars, as well as anyone interested in historical, social and cultural memory.


2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynne Hibberd ◽  
Zoë Tew-Thompson

Last of the Summer Wine (BBC, 1973–2010) was filmed in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, UK, for 37 years. Consequently, it has affected collective memories of the space and place of the region. Summer Wine has become embedded into the area and exists as part of everyday communicative memory in which fictional representations, oral histories, embodied practices, sensory engagements and lived experiences collide. In examining Summer Wine’s continued presence in Holmfirth even after it has ceased production, we investigate how the series as a text, institution and brand serves to spatially inform Holmfirth and construct, embed and inform cultural memory.


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document