Epilogue: Memory Moments

TitleEpilogue: Memory Moments
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2006
AuthorsGeoffrey White
JournalEthos
Volume34
Issue2
Pagination325-341
ISSN0091-2131
Abstract

It is apparent that the past has a robust future. With the intensification of globalization comes an increase in discourses of the past, accompanied by an expansion of memory studies in the academy. This "memory moment" is generating research on topics that are at once intensely personal and political. Anthropological approaches capable of linking the affective textures of personal experience with the broad sweep of collective histories are well suited to research in this area. Taken together, the articles assembled here suggest the emergence of new paradigms for understanding the cultural and emotional politics of social memory making.

URLhttp://www.jstor.org/stable/3651909
Short TitleEpilogue