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These essays examine the importance of historical consicousness and
the role of historiography in 'ethnic' situations, exploring the
many ways in which ethnic groups select history, write or rewrite
it, rescue appropriate or ignore it, forget or traduce it. Drawing
on expert knowledge of regions ranging from the Amazon to
contemporary Germany, the contributors bring anthropological and
historical understanding to answer these questions, and investigate
major topics such as the relationship between ethnic, national and
state identifications, and the cultural work of creating them.
Examples include Afrikaaners and Northern Ireland Protestants, as
well as Mormons and Catalans. Bringing together a variety of themes
that have recently become the focus of study - ethnicity, the uses
and nature of history and the likelihood of objectivity in
historical telling - the book will be of great interest ot students
in the social sciences, anthropology, politics, history and
international relations.
These essays examine the importance of historical consicousness and
the role of historiography in 'ethnic' situations, exploring the
many ways in which ethnic groups select history, write or rewrite
it, rescue appropriate or ignore it, forget or traduce it. Drawing
on expert knowledge of regions ranging from the Amazon to
contemporary Germany, the contributors bring anthropological and
historical understanding to answer these questions, and investigate
major topics such as the relationship between ethnic, national and
state identifications, and the cultural work of creating them.
Examples include Afrikaaners and Northern Ireland Protestants, as
well as Mormons and Catalans. Bringing together a variety of themes
that have recently become the focus of study - ethnicity, the uses
and nature of history and the likelihood of objectivity in
historical telling - the book will be of great interest ot students
in the social sciences, anthropology, politics, history and
international relations.
This study looks at how oral histories are constructed and how they
should be interpreted, and argues for a deeper understanding of
their oral and social characteristics. Oral accounts of past events
are also guides to the future, as well as being social activities
in which tellers claim authority to speak to particular audiences.
Like written history and literature, orality has its shaping genres
and aesthetic conventions and, likewise, has to be interpreted
through them. The argument is illustrated through a wide range of
examples of memory, narration and oral tradition, including many
from Europe and the Americas, and with a particular focus on oral
histories from the Jlao Kru of Liberia, with whom Elizabeth Tonkin
has carried out extensive research. Tonkin also draws on and
integrates the insights of a range of other disciplines, such as
literary criticism, linguistics, history, psychology, and
communication and cultural studies.
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