Description
Book SynopsisA practical guide to research methods in memory studies. It provides expert appraisals of a range of techniques and approaches in memory studies. It focuses on methods and methodology as a way to help bring unity and coherence to this field of study.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Methodological Premises and Purposes; Section One: Memory and Identity; 1. Autobiographical Memory; 2. Oral History and Remembering; Section Two: Qualities of Memory; 3. Experience and Memory; 4. Between Official and Vernacular Remembering; Section Three: Media and Memory; 5. Televised Remembering; 6. Vernacular Remembering; Section Four: Locations of Memory; 7. Memoryscapes and Multi-Sited Methods; 8. Ethnicity and Memory; Section Five: Disturbed Memory; 9. Painful Pasts; 10. Disrupted Childhoods; Section Six: Confessing and Witnessing; 11. Apologia; 12. Testimony.
