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Nothing happened : a history / by Crane, Susan A.,author.(CARDINAL)845448;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : episodes in a history of nothing -- Studying how nothing happens -- Nothing is the way it was -- Nothing happened -- Conclusion : there is nothing left to say"The past is what happened. History is what we remember and write about that past, the narratives we craft to make sense and meaning out of our memories and their sources. But what does it mean to look at the past and see Nothing? This book redefines Nothing as a historical object and reorients historical consciousness in terms of an awareness of what has and has not been considered worth remembering. "Nothing" has been a catch-all term for everything that is supposedly uninteresting, not happening, all that we have skipped over or is just not there. It will take some (possibly considerable) mental adjustment before we can see Nothing in the way this author has come to think of it, with a capital N. But if we are to transform Nothing into a legitimate historical object, something that exists in the present and has existed in the past, we must see it that way. For Nothing has actually been there all along, in plain sight. When nothing has changed but we think that it should have, we might call that injustice; when nothing happened over a long, slow period of time, we might call that boring. Justice and boredom have histories. So too does being disappointed when nothing happens-for instance, when a forecast end of the world does not occur, and millennial movements have to regroup and recalibrate their predictions. By paying attention to how we understand Nothing to be happening in the present, what it means to "know Nothing" or to "do Nothing," we can begin to ask how those experiences will be remembered. Visually driven, this book explores the ways that modern photographers, artists and writers have depicted ruins, emptiness, and a lack of action. It shows us how the perception that "nothing is the way it was" has produced images and art about memories. The book also analyzes such phenomena as fake historical markers that joke about how "On This Site Nothing Happened" to reflect on our everyday awareness that important events and places from the past be remembered. Most of all, it uncovers the mistake of taking Nothing for granted--because Nothing is happening all the time"--
Subjects: History; Collective memory.;
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Calling memory into place / by Apel, Dora,1952-author.(CARDINAL)283559;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Part I. Passages and streets. 1. A memorial for Walter Benjamin -- 2. "Hands up, don't shoot" -- Part II. Memorials and museums. 3. Why we need a national lynching memorial -- 4. "Let the world see what I have seen" -- Part III. Hometowns and homelands. 5. Seeing what can no longer be seen -- 6. Borders and walls -- Part IV. Hospitals and cemeteries. 7. Sprung from the head -- 8. Parallel universes -- Part V. Body and mind. 9. Reclaiming the self -- 10. The care of others."Calling Memory into Place offers a unique mix of cultural and political critique combined with memoir and family history in order to explore issues of cultural memory and identity. Focusing on the overlapping themes of intergenerational Holocaust trauma, racial violence, and gendered experience, Apel shows how cultural representations intersect with the experience of place and embodied knowledge as important ways of knowing. By investigating the relations among place, memory, and identity, this study shines a light on the dynamic nature of memory as it crosses geography and generations, demonstrating how cultural narratives rewrite an understanding of the self as well as group and national identity. In ten essays, Apel examines the ongoing construction of memory through memorials, photographs, artworks, and personal stories that open up a process of "unforgetting"-remembering what was formerly considered unworthy of being remembered or reinterpreting the meaning of the past. These essays explore the protests in Ferguson following the police killing of Michael Brown, the controversy over a painting of Emmett Till in the Whitney Biennial, and debates about a national lynching memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, as well as the contested politics of place during a visit to Israel/Palestine, a return to the hometown in Poland of the author's Holocaust survivor parents, a memorial for philosopher Walter Benjamin in Spain, and the constructive uses of inherited trauma in the author's breast cancer treatment and struggle for self-advocacy in the patriarchal medical institution, among other topics. By shifting between the scholarly, the personal, and the visual as different ways of knowing, these essays perform in practice an attention to the political and affective dimensions of trauma, memory, and place, demonstrating the need to remember the repressed and marginalized voices of the past in the struggle for equality and social justice in the present"--
Subjects: Collective memory.; Memory; Memory; Memory;
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Precious memories collection [sound recording] / by Jackson, Alan,1958-performer.(CARDINAL)368461;
Performed by Alan Jackson ; with accompanying musicians.
Subjects: Gospel music.; Country gospel music.; Gospel music.; Country music;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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The memory code : the secrets of Stonehenge, Easter Island and other ancient monuments / by Kelly, Lynne,1951-author.(CARDINAL)346734;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-310) and index.Encyclopaedic memories of the elders. Indigenous knowledge of animals ; Indigenous knowledge of plants ; Performed and restricted knowledge ; Songlines ; Memory spaces and ancient Greeks ; Ceremonies serve a multiplicity of purposes ; Longevity of stories ; Integrated knowledge systems -- Memory spaces, large and small. Skyscapes of memory ; Miniature memory spaces ; Strings : twisted, turned and knotted ; Bundles of non-utilitarian objects ; Representation of mythological ancestors ; Pueblo corn stories : mythology and science ; Genealogies and totems -- Memory spaces in a modern world. The landscape as a memory space ; Skyscapes as a memory space ; Decks of cards as memory spaces ; Miniature memory spaces ; A myriad memory spaces --- A journey through time. The first modern humans ; Monumental memory spaces -- The ever-changing memory spaces at Stonehenge. A mind game of transition to settlement ; Stonehenge and the British Neolithic ; First stage : 3000-2920 BCE (Middle Neolithic) ; Henge ditches ; Stonehenge : the theories ; Second stage : 2620-2480 BCE (Late Neolithic) ; Third stage : 2480-2280 BCE (Copper Age) ; Fourth stage : 2280-2020 BCE (Early Bronze Age) ; Fifth stage : 1680-1520 BCE (Middle Bronze Age) ; Portable objects ; Memory spaces, mines and moving on -- The megalithic complexes of Avebury and Orkney. Avebury : Windmill Hill, West Kennet Long Barrow, Avebury henge, The Sanctuary, Silbury Hill ; Orkney : Skara Brae, Carved stone balls, Stones of Stenness, Chambered cairns, Maeshowe, The Ring of Brodgar -- Newgrange and the passage cairns of Ireland. County Meath passage cairns ; Neolithic art ; The purpose of the passage cairns ; Circles of timber and stone ; Decorated stones ; Smaller passage cairns across County Meath ; Individual burials -- The tall stones and endless rows of Carnac. The Carnac Mounds and the Tumulus de Saint-Michel ; The Middle Neolithic passage cairns ; The stone rows of Carnac ; Gallery and lateral entrance graves -- The unparalleled architecture of Chaco Canyon. Pueblo Bonito ; Learning from contemporary Pueblo ; The Ancestral Puebloans at Chaco Canyon ; Great houses ; Enigmatic decorated objects ; Buying knowledge at Chaco Canyon -- Giants drawings on the desert floor at Nasca. Astronomy ; Making the lines ; The animal glyphs ; Trapezoids, squares and rectangles ; Straight lines dominate the pampa ; Time and change on the pampa -- Memory spaces across the Americas. The hunter-gatherers of Watson Brake and Poverty Point ; Memory spaces grow more complex ; Writing represents sound in Mesoamerica ; The earthworks of North America gain complexity ; The literate Aztecs and non-literate Inca -- Polynesian navigators create a unique world on Easter Island. The original settlers ; The amazing skill of the Pacific navigators ; Arriving on Easter Island ; Settling another small Polynesian island : Rarotonga ; Adapting to a different environment : New Zealand ; Knowledge structured by genealogy ; A memory space beyond the shoreline ; The collapse of a culture ; The Birdman cult ; Art in many forms."In ancient, pre-literate cultures across the globe, tribal elders had encyclopedic memories. They could name all the animals and plants across a landscape, identify the stars in the sky, and recite the history of their people. Yet today, most of us struggle to memorize more than a short poem. Using traditional Aboriginal Australian song lines as a starting point, Dr. Lynne Kelly has identified the powerful memory technique used by our ancestors and indigenous people around the world. In turn, she has then discovered that this ancient memory technique is the secret purpose behind the great prehistoric monuments like Stonehenge, which have puzzled archaeologists for so long. The henges across northern Europe, the elaborate stone houses of New Mexico, huge animal shapes in Peru, the statues of Easter Island--these all serve as the most effective memory system ever invented by humans. They allowed people in non-literate cultures to memorize the vast amounts of information they needed to survive. But how? For the first time, Dr. Kelly unlocks the secret of these monuments and their purpose as "memory places" in her fascinating book. Additionally, The Memory Code also explains how we can use this ancient mnemonic technique to train our minds in the tradition of our ancestors."--Book jacket.
Subjects: Memory.; Collective memory.; Memory; Civilization, Ancient.; Megalithic monuments.;
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Healing justice lineages : dreaming at the crossroads of liberation, collective care, and safety / by Page, Cara,author.(CARDINAL)866415; Woodland, Erica,author.(CARDINAL)866416;
Includes bibliographical references and index."An anthology of collective stories, testimonials, and incantations to guide readers through the history, legacies, and liberatory practices of healing justice"--
Subjects: Social justice.; Collective memory.; Marginality, Social.; Social advocacy.;
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The memories collection : Mars Hill University /
Interviews: Doublas Gordon -- Robert Chapman, Darryl Norton, Walter Smith, Rachel Chapman, Pat Smith -- Pauline Binkley Cheek, Richard Dillingham -- Edith Swann -- Harley Jolley -- Emmett Sams -- Ruth Anderson -- Edwin Cheek, Donald Anderson -- John M. Hough -- Everett (Buddy) Gill -- Mark Cabaniss -- James malon Fish -- Margaret Merchant Verhulst -- Sue Fitzgerald -- The SART Pioneers (James W. Thomas, C. Robert Jones, Bill Gregg, Earl Leininger) -- David Knisley -- Page Lee, Earl Leininger, Rovert Melvin, Thomas Sawyer -- Doris Phillips Bentley -- C. Earl Leininger -- Sylvia M. Murphey -- Nancy Fosson -- Noel Kinnamon -- Charity Ray -- David Riggins -- Nina Pollard -- Robert E. Knott -- Rober Roy Kramer -- Julie Fortney -- Donald Schmeltekopf -- Oralene Graves Simmons -- John Rovers -- JoAnne Alexander -- Virginia Hart -- A. Max Lennon, Ruth Lennon -- Beverly Lunsford -- Don Anderson, Julie Nooe, Ken Sanchagrin, Gail Sawyer, Larry Stern, Walter Stroud -- Betty Smith -- George Peery -- Charles Tomlinson -- Wnona Bierbaum -- Susan Kiser -- L. James Lenburg -- JoAnn Croom -- Arthur Everett Wood -- Katharine Meacham -- Jay Ledford -- John Wilson Wells -- Donna Nagey Rovertson -- Joel Reed -- Dan Lunsford -- Jeanne Threatt Hoffman -- Ellen Coomer -- Robert R. Chapman, Rachel Chapman -- Gerald Ball -- Thomas S. Plaut -- The Imperials (The MHC 1960s Band, including Carroll Aldridge, Bill Brown, David Buddin, Bob Drake, Jay Flippin', Bill McNeil, Don Peach, Bub Suttenfield, Carlton Wilkes) -- Walter P. Smith, Pat J. Smith -- Evelyn Anderson -- Ophelia (Fifi) Hildreth DeGroot -- Karen Hedrick -- Frnak Quick, William Hutt -- Paula Clayton Dempsey -- Robert Merrill -- Donal Russell -- Ray Rapp -- Lura Edsall -- Lora Coomer -- Gregory Lisenbee -- Rebecca "Becky" Cody -- Nell St. Clair -- Richard Dillingham -- Scott Pearson -- Gregory Clemons.A list of the interviews collected on DVDs in the first phase of this project.
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The big archive : art from bureaucracy / by Spieker, Sven.(CARDINAL)290395;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-215) and index.Introduction -- 1881: Matters of provenance (picking up after Hegel) -- Freud's files: Sigmund Freud -- 1913: "Du hasard en conserve": Duchamp's anemic archives: Marcel Duchamp -- 1924: the bureaucracy of the unconscious (early surrealism): André Breton, Max Ernst, Le Corbusier -- Around 1925: the body in the museum: Eli Lissitzky, Sergei Einstein -- 1970-2000: archive, database, photography: Hans-Peter Feldmann, Susan Hiller, Gerhard Richter, Walid Raad, Boris Mikhailov -- The archive at play: Michael Fehr, Andrea Fraser, Susan Hiller, Sophie Calle -- Epilogue / Thomas Demand.
Subjects: Art, Modern; Collective memory.; Art and history.;
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The age of goodbyes / by Li, Zishu,1971-author.; Chin, YZ,translator.;
"In 1969, in the wake of Malaysia's deadliest race riots, a woman named Du Li An secures her place in society by marrying a gangster; in a parallel narrative, a critic known as the Fourth Person explores the work of a writer also named Du Li An; in a third storyline, "you" are reading a novel titled The Age of Goodbyes in the wake of your mother's death. Li Zi Shu's debut novel THE AGE OF GOODBYES explores what happens to memory when official accounts of history distort and render it taboo"--
Subjects: Novels.; Historical fiction.; Autobiographical memory; Collective memory; Mothers; Mothers.;
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Antediluvian / by McCarthy, Wil,author.(CARDINAL)436250;
It turns out that the legends of the Stone Age are even older than we think. It was a time when a world of archetypes and myths was written upon the very fabric of humanity itself in the deepest way--a world that has only been preserved in the oldest stories with no way to actually visit it--until now. In a brilliant and dangerous brain-hacking experiment, Harv Leonel and Tara Mukherjee are about to discover entire lifetimes of human memory coded in our genes and reveal ancient legends--from knights and trolls, to flood myths, to the birth of humanity itself--that are very real. And very deadly...
Subjects: Science fiction.; Collective memory; Prehistoric peoples; Neurotechnology (Bioengineering);
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Collecting memories : treasures from the Library of Congress / by Library of Congress,author.(CARDINAL)137409; Hayden, Carla Diane,1952-author of foreword.(CARDINAL)348676; Library of Congress.David M. Rubenstein Treasures Gallery.(CARDINAL)894765;
Memorialization and commemoration -- Personal narrative -- Homeland -- Recording and retelling -- Collected stories, collective experience -- Mechanics of memory -- Compendium of knowledge -- Guiding memory."Memory formation, memorialization, collective history, and knowledge of the known world are guided by individuals and their cultures. Collecting Memories explores the ways people have preserved their history, culture, and personal recollections in a variety of artifacts, including letters, diaries, photographs, maps, books, quilts, rugs, murals, scrolls, and monuments. This book accompanies the inaugural exhibition in the David M. Rubenstein Treasures Gallery in the Library of Congress's Thomas Jefferson Building. The gallery is dedicated to sharing rare and important works created across the globe and housed in every corner of the world's largest library"--
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Catalogs.; Library of Congress; Rare library materials; Material culture; Collective memory.; Library exhibits;
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