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Memory Work (memory + work)

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Selected Abstracts

Memory Work: Archaeologies of Material Practices edited by Barbara J. Mills and William H. Walker

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 2 2009
KATINA LILLIOS
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Memory, Forgetting, and Economic Crisis:

MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY QUARTERLY, Issue 1 2010
Drug Use, Social Fragmentation in an Argentine Shantytown
Closely linked to the increase in psychotropic pill consumption, forgetting and remembering emerged from devastated social scenarios as a new local idiom among poor youth in the late 1990s and the new millennium. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork carried out during the years of the deepest economic crisis in Argentina (2001,03), I argue that psychotropic pill consumption is associated with not only deteriorating economic conditions but also changes in the quality and price of cocaine, and in the scarcity and subsequent change of status of medications during the economic breakdown. Taking into account developments in the field of memory studies, I examine the relationship among political economy, social memory work, and changing drug-use practices. Regarding memory as a social practice, I argue that the growth of psychotropic pill consumption in the late 1990s can be understood through the interplay of Paul Ricoeur's notions regarding different kinds and levels of forgetting. By analyzing changing survival strategies, social network dismantlement, changing mortality patterns, and abusive police repression, I discuss how social fragmentation engendered by structural reforms has modified social memory work. [source]

Embracing the lived memory of genocide: Holocaust survivor and descendant renegade memory work at the House of Being

AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, Issue 3 2010
CAROL A. KIDRON
ABSTRACT The House of Being is a Holocaust-survivor geriatric center and memorial museum in Israel, where lifeworlds and deathworlds coexist to create a "lived memory" of the Holocaust past. Its agenda, decor, and provocative commemorative practices engender movement between everyday life in the present and the genocidal past. Humor, for instance,the House genre,allows Holocaust descendants to explore contradictions between their familial lived experience of genocide and the "dead memory" of national commemoration. Sustaining a balance between a departure from and accommodation to mainstream national memory work, ludic memory reinvigorates the commemorative landscape. The activities that take place at the House, as well as its design and ambiance, problematize conceptualizations of commemoration, traumatic loss, serious humor, and the sequestration of death in everyday life. [source]