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Memories Cast in Stone - The Relevance of the Past in Everyday Life (Paperback)
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Memories Cast in Stone - The Relevance of the Past in Everyday Life (Paperback)
Series: German Studies Series
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How does the past matter in the present? How is a feeling of
'ownership' of the past expressed in people's everyday lives?
Should continuity with the distant past be seen as simply a
nationalist fiction or is it transformed by local historical
imagination?While recent anthropological studies have focused on
reconstructing disputed histories, this book examines the multiple
ways in which the past is used by people as a critical resource for
interpreting the meanings of a changing present. It poses the issue
of the felt relevance of the past in constructing present day
identities. The Greek island of Kalymnos is a barren and seemingly
bucolic setting of tourist imagination. But its history has been
one of almost continuous occupation by foreign powers and of often
fierce resistance. This has made Kalymnians particularly sensitive
to seeing their island in a much wider context and to understanding
the 'games played by the powerful'.In examining changing gender
relations, European integration, and local perceptions of the war
in the former Yugoslavia, this book brings together local, national
and international perspectives in a unified field. Controversial
contemporary practices of dynamite throwing and dowry giving serve
as tropes through which Kalymnians explore alternative ways of
living in a changing world. Further, the author argues persuasively
for the crucial importance of situated fieldwork in
'peripheral'places in understanding the issues and conflicts of a
transnational world. This book serves as an highly readable case
study of the complex connections between local and global
discourses and practices, and how they are shaped by their
relationship to the past.
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