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- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- 1 The European Memory Complex Introduction
- The memory phenomenon
- The memory complex
- Assemblage and complexity
- Methodology
- The problem with memory
- Individual and collective
- Memory and history
- Memory terminologies and alternatives
- Collective, social, cultural … memory
- Historical consciousness and past presencing
- Heritage
- Europe and others
- Preludes
- The past as a foreign country?
- The sciences of memory
- The rest of this book
- 2 Making Histories Europe, traditions and other present pasts
- Inventing traditions
- Anthropology, tradition and change
- Inventing quality French wine
- Invented traditions as ideology in Communist Eastern Europe
- Anthropology, tradition and Europe
- Historical situating
- Making European history
- EU invented traditions
- Writing European histories
- In search of European historical consciousness
- What is European historical consciousness?
- National differences and cultural models
- Other histories
- Nationalist narratives and hidden histories
- Other historical consciousnesses
- The everyday life of long histories – Kalymnos, Greece
- Narrating the self and the past – post-Soviet Latvia
- State and individual historical narrations – the two Berlins
- 3 Telling the Past The Multitemporal Challenge
- Anthropology and history: towards an entanglement
- Multitemporal approaches
- Field and archive
- Shaping memories
- The past in hiding
- Creative recollection of Tuscan trauma
- Grandpa wasn’t a Nazi
- Quiet voices
- Mutedness
- Methodological approaches
- Non-narrated memory
- No memory or commemoration? Roma
- Repertoires of past presencing
- No cheese, no heritage
- Multitemporal experiments
- Clashing memories of Bosnian conflict
- Layering histories in Nuremberg
- AIDS, personal memories and staged fieldwork in London
- Chorographies and sensory remembering in Bucharest
- 4 Feeling the Past Embodiment, place and nostalgia
- Turning to embodiment, materiality and affect
- Phenomenologies
- Materialities
- Post-Socialist dead bodies
- Nostalgia
- The breast of Aphrodite, sensory memory and the historical unconscious
- Proustian perspectives – food memories
- Re-rooting memory
- Varieties of nostalgia
- Touching places
- Home
- Dispossessions and repossessions
- Post-Socialist nostalgia
- Ostalgie
- Other post-Socialist nostalgias
- 5 Selling the Past Commodifcation, authenticity and heritage
- Commodification and inauthenticity
- Culture and enterprise in The Skye Story
- Inalienable heritage
- Dualchas: inalienable dispositions
- History, myth and story
- Authenticity
- Real versus fake heritage in Pogoni
- Reflexivity – re-living the Indian in Europe
- Real food
- Artisanal authenticity: Grand Cru chocolates in France
- Ironies of authenticity: slow foods and the standardisation of local products
- Authentic ethnics
- Authenticities of things and persons
- Social and object relations of authenticity
- Relativities and authenticating authenticity
- 6 Musealisation Everyday life, temporality and old things
- Musealisation
- The agony of the real
- Registers of reality
- The musealisation of folklife
- Heimat
- Museums of everyday life
- Objects
- The Skye Museum of Island Life
- Time
- Space
- Ownership/consumption
- The fetishisation and musealisation of everyday life
- 7 Transcultural Heritage Reconfguring identities and the public sphere
- Transcultural and other terms
- National identity, monuments and museums
- Identities, culture and heritage
- Multiculturalism
- Veiling and unveiling heritage
- The veil as Islamic heritage
- Transcultural heritage in the museum
- Transcultural connections
- Exhibiting migration
- 8 Cosmopolitan Memory Holocaust commemoration and national identity
- Cosmopolitan memory
- The rise of Holocaust commemoration and heritagisation
- Language and the global-assemblage ‘Holocaust’
- Holocaust heritage
- Explaining the Holocaust phenomenon
- Ritual commemoration of the Holocaust
- Nationalism in Israeli Holocaust commemoration in Poland
- The UK’s first Holocaust Memorial Day
- National identity dilemmas
- A cosmopolitan battle in Denmark?
- Incorporating Jews in the New Europe
- Overcoming national sentiments in the post-war Balkans?
- Cosmonostalgia and closures
- History and heritage in post-war reconciliation
- 9 The Future of Memory – and Forgetting – in europe
- Europe’s pasts
- Temporalities
- Temporal co-presence
- Memory and identity
- Possessions and interiors
- Authenticity and change
- Proliferation
- Proliferation
- A looming crash?
- Demise of identity politics and conflict?
- Memory as luxury
- Reflective and affective past presencing
- Notes
- 1 The European memory complex: introduction
- 2 Making histories: Europe, traditions and other present pasts
- 3 Telling the past: the multitemporal challenge
- 4 Feeling the past: embodiment, place and nostalgia
- 5 Selling the past: commodification, authenticity and heritage
- 6 Musealisation: everyday life, temporality and old things
- 7 Transcultural heritage: reconfiguring identities and the public sphere
- 8 Cosmopolitan memory: Holocaust commemoration and national identity
- 9 The future of memory – and forgetting – in Europe
- References
- Index