Genealogical Imagination as an Area of Conflicted Memories

A Post-Sarmatic Case Study

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ID21420826
AuthorsMarta Raczyńska-Kruk (0000-0002-1792-5267, University of Warsaw, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume50
Pages17-31
Publication date2023-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePrace Etnograficzne (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0083-4327 • E-ISSN: 2299-9558
PublisherUniwersytet Jagiellonski - Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4467/22999558.pe.22.003.17631
OpenAlexW4389457976
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited12

In this article, I will discuss two levels of memory conflicts in family genealogies: internal – intimate and private, involving mainly taboos in genealogical practices, and external, which come from broader realms of memory, such as national myths and other collective patterns of imagining the past. The leading story in this article is a multidimensional genealogical narrative provided by an amateur genealogist Iwona Sudnik from Pęgowo near Wroclaw. Her genealogical imagination as a form of living “over [family] time” (Jackson 2021) is considered here as an area of accumulated memories that intermingle, complement, or compete with one another, providing background against which conflicts of memory can be studied in the course of in-depth ethnographic research

Aesthetics · Amateur · Archaeology · Art · Collective memory · Complement (music) · Epistemology · Ethnography · Genealogy · Literature · Mythology · Narrative · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Central European Literary Studies · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies

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