Anthropology of Collective Memory

Estonian National Awakening Revisited

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20205889
AutoresT Gro (0000-0002-1244-6945, University of Tartu, autor correspondente)
Ano2002
Volume6
Fascículo4
Páginas342-354
Data de publicação2002-10-10
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoTrames Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1406-0922 • E-ISSN: 1736-7514
EditoraEstonian Academy Publishers (PUBLISHER • EE)
DOI10.3176/tr.2002.4.04
OpenAlexW121766907
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas7

Collective memory constitutes a particularly important basis for nationhood and national identity. It establishes a link between generations, which creates an image of temporal continuity and legitimates the existing sociopolitical order. As anthropological studies have often revealed, however, invention and forgetting are integral to the formation of collective memory. This paper studies the politics of collective memory from the anthropological perspective in the example of Estonian national awakening in the nineteenth century and the role of 'reservoirs of memory' in maintaining and recreating national identity

Collective memory · Estonian · Linguistics · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · History · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Philosophy