The Varieties of Historical Experience

ISBN-13: 9780367731229 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 14 str.

Stephan Palmi?; Charles Stewart

Opis

This book considers how history is not just objectively lived but subjectively experienced by people in the process of orienting their present toward the past.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: The Varieties of Historical Experience  2. The Generic Turn: Genre, Audience, and Reclaiming Historical Authority  3. Biographical Construction and Intertextual Being  4. Gooseflesh: Music, Somatosensation, and the Making of Historical Experience  5. Affective Democracy: Building a Community of Feeling through Spanish Mass Grave Exhumations  6. Memory, Mediation, and the Aesthetic: Reframing Waterloo  7. Of Arks and Dragons: The Power of Entertainment in Creationist Historicity  8. Bodies, Artifacts and Ghosts: NAGPRA, Ceremonies of Repossession and the Unsettling of Settler Colonialism  9. Competing Roadways, Contesting Bloodlines: Registers of Biopower at a Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally  10. Iterative Interactions: Old and New Media Inflections of the Historical Imagination  11. Sensors and Sources: How a Universal Model of Instrumentation Affects Our Experiences of the Past  12. Towards a New Historical Condition

O autorze

Stephan Palmié is Professor of Anthropology at The University of Chicago, USA.

Charles Stewart is Professor of Anthropology at University College London, UK.