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The spirit of mourning : history, memory and the body /

"How is the memory of traumatic events, such as genocide and torture, inscribed within human bodies? In this book, Paul Connerton discusses social and cultural memory by looking at the role of mourning in the production of histories and the reticence of silence across many different cultures. I...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Connerton, Paul
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The birth of histories from the spirit of mourning
  • 2. Seven types of forgetting
  • 3. Silences
  • 4. Spatial orientation
  • 5. Tradition as conversation and tradition as bodily re-enactment
  • 6. Tattoos, masks, skin
  • 7. Emphatic, mimetic and cosmic projection.