1st Edition
Guardians of Living History An Ethnography of Post-Soviet Memory Making in Estonia
By Inge Melchior
Copyright 2020
368 Pages
by
Routledge
368 Pages
by
Routledge
368 Pages
by
Routledge
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Guardians of Living History: An Ethnography of Post-Soviet Memory Making in Estonia interrogates how people living in a society with an extremely complicated, violent past, only a short history of independence, and a desire to belong to Europe engage with the past, both within their families and as members of a national community. In line with other scholarship on memory, this book shows that... Read more
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, PREFACE, INTRODUCTION: PERSISTING PASTS IN THE MARGINS OF EUROPE, PART 1: THE MAKING OF ESTONIAN HISTORY, PART 2: THE MEANING OF CLOSURE, PART 3: CLOSURE AND A SIGNIFICANT OTHER, CONCLUSION: GUARDIANS OF LIVING HISTORY, LIST OF INFORMANTS, FULL REFERENCE LIST, INDEX
Biography
Dr Inge Melchior defended her PhD thesis in the Social and Cultural Anthropology department of the VU University Amsterdam in 2015. She has published on her ethnographic fieldwork in Estonia as well as on her later applied research experience. She currently works at Maastricht University.
