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9783954901814

Editor: Jacquesson, Svetlana

History Making in Central and Northern Eurasia

Contemporary Actors and Practices

2016
17.0 x 24.0 cm, 168 p., hardback
79,00 €

ISBN: 9783954901814
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Short Description

This volume seeks to extend our understanding of how knowledge about the past was and is being produced in central and northern Eurasia. Its authors use the methods of several disciplines literary studies, history, anthropology, area studies in an attempt to seize all the complexity of "history making" as a social phenomenon and to locate the actors and practices of history making in central and northern Eurasia within a broader context of
scholarly reflections on what past or history is, and how it matters.

Description

This volume seeks to extend our understanding of how knowledge about the past was and is being produeed in central and northern Eurasia. Its authors use the methods of several disciplines literary studies, history, anthropology, area studies in an attempt to seize all the complexity of „history making“ as a social phenomenon and to locate the actors and practices of „history making“ in central and northern Eurasia within a broader context of seholarly reflections on what past or history is, and how it matters. They analyse „history making“ as practiced by Uzbek elders‘ responding to invitations to remember events such as collectivisation; everyday Uzbeks writing memoirs „to fill in the blank spots“ in official history; genealogists hunting for secrets and truths on the past of the Kyrgyz; shamans and academies crafting narratives on the glorious heritage of the Yakuts; Uyghur and Chinese historians recounting a local peasant rebellion; and Yakut or Kyrgyz citizens discussing history, or relating to the past, during various social events or leisure activities. The authors seek to understand the various practices of „history making“ by the ethnographie study of texts within their social contexts of production, and of performers shaping stories for different audiences.

Keywords

Anthropology (79) || Asia (20) || Cultural & media studies (303) || Cultural studies (285) || Europe (41) || History (829) || History of religion (69) || Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 (9) || Literary studies: general (120) || Literature: history & criticism (178) || Middle East (16) || Religion & beliefs (225) || Religion: general (94) || Social & cultural anthropology (77) || Society & culture: general (408) || Sociology & anthropology (108)