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How are historians and social scientists to understand the
emergence, the multiplicity, and the mutability of collective
memories of the Ottoman Empire in the political formations that
succeeded it? With contributions focussing on several of the
nation-states whose peoples once were united under the aegis of
Ottoman suzerainty, this volume proposes new theoretical approaches
to the experience and transmission of the past through time.
Developing the concept of topology, contributors explore collective
memories of Ottoman identity and post-Ottoman state formation in a
contemporary epoch that, echoing late modernity, we might term
"late nationalism".
How are historians and social scientists to understand the
emergence, the multiplicity, and the mutability of collective
memories of the Ottoman Empire in the political formations that
succeeded it? With contributions focussing on several of the
nation-states whose peoples once were united under the aegis of
Ottoman suzerainty, this volume proposes new theoretical approaches
to the experience and transmission of the past through time.
Developing the concept of topology, contributors explore collective
memories of Ottoman identity and post-Ottoman state formation in a
contemporary epoch that, echoing late modernity, we might term
"late nationalism".
Psychologists have done a great deal of research on the effects of
trauma on the individual, revealing the paradox that violent
experiences are often secreted away beyond easy accessibility,
becoming impossible to verbalize explicitly. However, comparatively
little research has been done on the transgenerational effects of
trauma and the means by which experiences are transmitted from
person to person across time to become intrinsic parts of the
social fabric. With eight contributions covering Africa, Central
and South America, China, Europe, and the Middle East, this volume
sheds new light on the role of memory in constructing popular
histories - or historiographies - of violence in the absence of, or
in contradistinction to, authoritative written histories. It brings
new ethnographic data to light and presents a truly cross-cultural
range of case studies that will greatly enhance the discussion of
memory and violence across disciplines.
Drawing on research conducted on Chios during the sovereign debt
crisis that struck Greece in 2010, Nicolas Argenti follows the
lives of individuals who symbolize the transformations affecting
this Aegean island. As witnesses to the crisis speak of their
lives, however, their current anxieties and frustrations are
expressed in terms of past crises that have shaped the dramatic
history of Chios, including the German occupation in World War II
and the ensuing famine, the exchange of populations between Greece
and Turkey of 1922-23, and the Massacres of 1822 that decimated the
island at the outset of the Greek War of Independence. The complex
temporality that emerges in these accounts is ensconced in a
cultural context of commemorative ritual, ecstatic visions, an
annual rocket war, and other embodied practices that contribute to
forms of memory production that question the assumptions of the
trauma discourse, revealing the islanders of Chios to be active in
forging their place in time in a manner that blurs the boundaries
between historiography, memory, religion, and myth. A member of the
Chiot diaspora, Argenti makes use of unpublished correspondence
from survivors of the Massacres of 1822 and their descendants and
reflects on oral family histories and silences in which the island
represents an enigmatic but palpable absence. As he explores the
ways in which a body of memory and a cultural experience of
temporality came to be dislocated and shared between two
populations, his return to Chios marks an encounter in which the
traditional roles of ethnographer and participant come to be
dispersed and intertwined.
Drawing on research conducted on Chios during the sovereign debt
crisis that struck Greece in 2010, Nicolas Argenti follows the
lives of individuals who symbolize the transformations affecting
this Aegean island. As witnesses to the crisis speak of their
lives, however, their current anxieties and frustrations are
expressed in terms of past crises that have shaped the dramatic
history of Chios, including the German occupation in World War II
and the ensuing famine, the exchange of populations between Greece
and Turkey of 1922-23, and the Massacres of 1822 that decimated the
island at the outset of the Greek War of Independence. The complex
temporality that emerges in these accounts is ensconced in a
cultural context of commemorative ritual, ecstatic visions, an
annual rocket war, and other embodied practices that contribute to
forms of memory production that question the assumptions of the
trauma discourse, revealing the islanders of Chios to be active in
forging their place in time in a manner that blurs the boundaries
between historiography, memory, religion, and myth. A member of the
Chiot diaspora, Argenti makes use of unpublished correspondence
from survivors of the Massacres of 1822 and their descendants and
reflects on oral family histories and silences in which the island
represents an enigmatic but palpable absence. As he explores the
ways in which a body of memory and a cultural experience of
temporality came to be dislocated and shared between two
populations, his return to Chios marks an encounter in which the
traditional roles of ethnographer and participant come to be
dispersed and intertwined.
Psychologists have done a great deal of research on the effects of
trauma on the individual, revealing the paradox that violent
experiences are often secreted away beyond easy accessibility,
becoming impossible to verbalize explicitly. However, comparatively
little research has been done on the transgenerational effects of
trauma and the means by which experiences are transmitted from
person to person across time to become intrinsic parts of the
social fabric. With eight contributions covering Africa, Central
and South America, China, Europe, and the Middle East, this volume
sheds new light on the role of memory in constructing popular
histories - or historiographies - of violence in the absence of, or
in contradistinction to, authoritative written histories. It brings
new ethnographic data to light and presents a truly cross-cultural
range of case studies that will greatly enhance the discussion of
memory and violence across disciplines.
The young people of the Cameroon Grassfields have been subject to a
long history of violence and political marginalization. For
centuries, the main victims of the slave trade, they became prime
targets for forced labor campaigns under a series of colonial
rulers. Today's youth remain at the bottom of the fiercely
hierarchical and polarized societies of the Grassfields, and it is
their response to centuries of exploitation that Nicolas Pandely
Argenti takes up in this absorbing and original book. Beginning his
study with a political analysis of youth in the Grassfields from
the eighteenth century to the present, Argenti pays special
attention to the repeated violent revolts staged by young victims
of political oppression. He then combines this history with
extensive ethnographic fieldwork in the Oku chiefdom, discovering
that the specter of past violence lives on in the masked dance
performances that have earned intense devotion from today's youth.
Argenti contends that by evoking the imagery of past cataclysmic
events, these masquerades allow young Oku men and women to address
the inequities they face in their relations with elders and state
authorities today.
The young people of the Cameroon Grassfields have been subject to a
long history of violence and political marginalization. For
centuries the main victims of the slave trade, they became prime
targets for forced labor campaigns under a series of colonial
rulers. Today's youth remain at the bottom of the fiercely
hierarchical and polarized societies of the Grassfields, and it is
their response to centuries of exploitation that Nicolas Pandely
Argenti takes up in this absorbing and original book. Beginning his
study with a political analysis of youth in the Grassfields from
the eighteenth century to the present, Argenti pays special
attention to the repeated violent revolts staged by young victims
of political oppression. He then combines this history with
extensive ethnographic fieldwork in the Oku chiefdom, discovering
that the specter of past violence lives on in the masked dance
performances that have earned intense devotion from today's youth.
Argenti contends that by evoking the imagery of past cataclysmic
events, these masquerades allow young Oku men and women to address
the inequities they face in their relations with elders and state
authorities today.
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