ABSTRACT

The recent wave of interest in oral history and return to the active subject as a topic in historical practice raises a number of questions about the status and function of scholarly history in our societies. This articles in this volume, originally pubished in 1990, and which originally appeared in History and Anthropology, Volume 2, Part 2, discuss what contributions, meanings and consequences emerge from scholarly history turning to living memory, and what the relationships are between history and memory.

chapter |18 pages

Introduction

chapter |23 pages

The collapse of memory

The case of farm workers (French Vexin, pays de France)

chapter |22 pages

In search of working-class memory

Some questions and a tentative assessment

chapter |23 pages

From sacred history to historical memory and back

The Jewish past

chapter |29 pages

Remember and never forget

chapter |17 pages

Mutilated memory

reconstruction of the past and the mechanisms of memory among 17th century Otomis

chapter |24 pages

The recollection of times past

Memory and eveńt in Huichol narrative