Author : Katja Uusihakala
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ISBN 13 : 9789521044762
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (447 download)
Book Synopsis Memory Meanders by : Katja Uusihakala
Download or read book Memory Meanders written by Katja Uusihakala and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secondly I examine how home - both as a mundanely organized sphere of everyday lives and as an idea of belonging - is culturally configured, and analyze how and if homes travel in diaspora. In the final ethnographic section I focus on commemorative practices. I first analyze how food and culturally specific festive occasions of commensality are connected to social and sensual memory, considering the unique ways in which food acts as a mnemonic trigger in a diaspora community. The second example concerns the celebration of a centenary of Rhodesia in 1990. Through this case I describe how the mnemonic power of commemoration rests on the fact that culturally meaningful experiences are bodily re-enacted. I show how habitual memory connected to performance is one example of how memory gets passed-on in non-textual ways.