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Guardians of Living History : An Ethnography of Post-Soviet Memory Making in Estonia /
This book interrogates how people living in a society with an extremely complicated, violent past, only a short history of independence and a desire to belong to Europe engage with the past, both within their families and as members of a national community. In line with other scholarship on memory,...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Heritage and Memory Studies ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book interrogates how people living in a society with an extremely complicated, violent past, only a short history of independence and a desire to belong to Europe engage with the past, both within their families and as members of a national community. In line with other scholarship on memory, it shows that many Estonians desire an established collective story, as they live in a society where their national identity is quite regularly under threat. At the same time however, that same closure is perceived to pose a threat to the survival of Estonian culture and independence. This book provides an intimate insight in the lives of Estonians from the countryside, former deportees, young intellectuals and memory activists, who all in their own ways act as guardians of a national history: a history which they wish to keep alive, apolitical and as close to their family stories as possible. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (368 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9789048541430 9783110689556 9783110696295 9783110704716 9783110704518 9783110704730 9783110704525 9783110696301 |
| Acceso: | restricted access |