Historical memory in Africa : dealing with the past, reaching for the future in an intercultural context

Historical memory in Africa dealing with the past, reaching for the future in an intercultural context

Social theory and making sense of Africa / Elisio Macamo -- History by word of mouth : linking past and present through oral memory / Annekie Joubert -- Historical memory and representation of new nations in Africa / Bogumil Jewsiewicki -- Memory, history and historiography of Congo-Zaire / Justin B...

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Weitere Verfasser: Diawara, Mamadou (HerausgeberIn), Lategan, Bernard C. (BerichterstatterIn), Rüsen, Jörn (BerichterstatterIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York u.a. Berghahn Books 2010
Ausgabe:1. publ.
Schriftenreihe:Making sense of history 12
Schlagworte:
Historiography > Social aspects > Collective memory > Memory > Africa > Aufsatzsammlung > Afrika > Geschichtsschreibung
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Zusammenfassung:Social theory and making sense of Africa / Elisio Macamo -- History by word of mouth : linking past and present through oral memory / Annekie Joubert -- Historical memory and representation of new nations in Africa / Bogumil Jewsiewicki -- Memory, history and historiography of Congo-Zaire / Justin Bisanswa -- Remembering the past, reaching for the future : aspects of African historical memory in an international context / Mamadou Diawara -- Remembering conflict : the centenary commemoration of the South African War of 1899-1902 as a case study / Albert Grundlingh -- From public history to private enterprise : the politics of memory in the new South Africa / Patrick Harries -- Remembering with the future in mind / Bernard Lategan -- Holocaust experience and historical sense generation from a German perspective / Jörn Rüsen -- Ayodhya, memory, myth : futurizing the past from an Indian perspective / Ranjan Ghosh -- Human suffering and forgiveness : a dialogue with Kim Dae-Jung from an East Asian perspective / Han Sang-Jin -- Remorse, forgiveness and rehumanization : stories from South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela -- Healing from Auschwitz and Mengele's experiments / Eva Mozes Kor
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:VI, 248 S.
Ill.
ISBN:9781845456528
978-1-84545-652-8