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In Social Memory and History, a group of anthropologists,
sociologists, social linguists, gerontologists, and historians
explore the ways in which memory reconstructs the past and
constructs the present. A substantial introduction by the editors
outlines the key issues in the understanding of social memory: its
nature and process, its personal and political implications, the
crisis in memory, and the relationship between social and
individual memory. Ten cross-cultural case studies-groups ranging
from Kiowa songsters, Burgundian farmers, elderly Phildelaphia
whites, Chilean political activists, American immigrants to Israel,
and Irish working class women-then explore how social memory
transmits culture or contests it at the individual, community, and
national levels in both tangible and symbolic spheres.
A history of the Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews living in Mexico
City, describing the communal structures they created since the
beginning of the century to sustain their cultural survival. The
Ashkenazi arrived in Mexico with few resources but created a
network of organizations to ensure their survival, contacting
points of conflict with the larger
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