How Generations Remember

Autor(en)

Monika Palmberger

Abstrakt

This book provides a profound insight into post-war Mostar, and the memories of three generations of this Bosnian-Herzegovinian city. Drawing on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, it offers a vivid account of how personal and collective memories are utterly intertwined, and how memories across the generations are reimagined and ‘rewritten’ following great socio-political change. Focusing on both Bosniak-dominated East Mostar and Croat-dominated West Mostar, it demonstrates that, even in this ethno-nationally divided city with its two divergent national historiographies, generation-specific experiences are crucial in how people ascribe meaning to past events. This detailed and engaging work will appeal to students and scholars of anthropology, sociology, political science, history and oral history, particularly those with an interest in memory, post-socialist Europe and conflict studies.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie

Externe Organisation(en)

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Anzahl der Seiten

240

Publikationsdatum

2016

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

504001 Allgemeine Soziologie

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 16 – Frieden, Gerechtigkeit und starke Institutionen

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/how-generations-remember(fc594e74-0a6f-4c70-9ac0-e20ee9adc438).html