Legend, Legacy and the French 12/01 Raid in 1948
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2156277 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Markus Schlecker (Max Planck Society, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 323-347 |
| Publication date | 2012-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History and Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0275-7206 • E-ISSN: 1477-2612 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02757206.2012.697061 |
| OpenAlex | W1988203548 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 54 |
Comparison is drawn between a village's circle of lay Buddhists and an association of former ex-guerrilla fighters in a Northern Vietnamese commune and their respective modes of commemoration. Both groups commemorate the same raid by French soldiers on their commune in 1948, known as the 12/01 Raid. The Association's mode of commemoration is conceptualized as legend; a story that is considered true, but which also retells the 12/01 Raid in terms of a series of ordeals and trials, and with the protagonists overcoming them. The Buddhists' commemorative mode is conceptualized as legacy to capture their vision of a common tragedy. It is argued that the Buddhists commemorate the 12/01 Raid in terms of a common, fateful point of origin, and that legend should be considered a restricted version of legacy
Art · Art history · Genealogy · Legend · Literature · Mode (computer interface · RAID · Tragedy (event · Computer Science · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · North African History and Literature · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
The Past is a Foreign Country
Tense Past
Vietnam 1945
The Historic Turn in the Human Sciences
How Societies Remember
The political lives of dead bodies
CHAPTER VI. The Historic, the Legendary, and the Incredible
CHAPTER II. Identity, Heritage, and History
After the MassacreCommemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai
Vietnam's Economic Policy Since 1975
Culture, Ritual and Revolution in Vietnam
Postcolonial Vietnam
Vietnamese Tradition on Trial, 1920-1945
A World Transformed
Present Past
The Viêtnamese Concept of the Human Souls and the Rituals of Birth and Death
Possessed by the Spirits
Poor Policies, Wealthy Peasants
Imagined Ancestries of Vietnamese Communism
Fate, Memory, and the Postcolonial Construction of the Self
The Subaltern Talks Back
Nations and nationalism since 1789
The challenge of reform in Indochina
The Colonial Bastille
It's time for the Indochinese Revolution to show its true colours’
Things held in common
Festivals and the dynamics of the exceptional dead in northern Vietnam
Everywhere incense burning
How societies remember
Local Dynamics of Renegotiating Ritual Space in Northern Vietnam
Political power beyond the State
Between Memory and History
Vietnamese Marxism, Dissent, and the Politics of Postcolonial Memory
Wandering Ghosts of Late Socialism
The Country of Memory
Seeing Like a State
Ghosts of War in Vietnam
The limits of "state functionalism" and the reconstruction of funerary ritual in contemporary northern Vietnam
Charred Lullabies
The Sacralization of Memory
Going Back a Long Way
Making Good on Debt
The Rehabilitation of an Uncomfortable Past
Introduction
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |