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Dear Erika,
You may want to have a look at Sharon MacDonald's new book "Memorylands" on
heritage landscpaes in Europe. the scope of her synthesis of approaches to
collective memory/social memory/heritage is impressive,
Good luck,
Jackie
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 4:03 PM, erika tan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hi all on this listing
>
> I am embarking on a project which will in some form or other connect 3
> areas of memory research and i am hoping to gather in crowd sourcing
> fashion some tips, suggestions and advice. The areas i am hoping to connect
> in terms of memory research relate to cultural memory and forms of
> memorising, externalised memory forms i.e. objects but also linguistically
> in story/myth/song etc; neurological research on memory (especially any
> work which has tried to take on board or look at cultural difference in
> relation to neurological memory function; and finally there is a component
> of my interest which will be looking at the introduction of Cloud
> computing, in which memory is distributed externally and remotely.
>
> I am interested in exploring different methodological approaches, and in
> some ways will have to approach the disciplines of anthropology, psychology
> and neuroscience, but equally, i will be looking at other methodologies,
> such as forms of memory training - the memory palace initially, but would
> be interested to see if there might be other forms of memory enhancement
> exercises/rituals etc within anthropological research. Cross culturally are
> there extensive differences in the way culture produces memory? what role
> does the shared experience place? is there something to explore in the
> ideas of distributed culture and distributed memory(data/digital)?
>
> Is anyone on this list doing research in this kind of area, or perhaps
> have some suggested research/reading?
>
> Finally, this starts out as research, but will eventually lead onto a film
> work. Any suggestions much appreciated.
>
> Vb, Erika
>
> ps please email me directly so as to avoid unnecessary spamming of others
> less interested. Thanks!
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Dr. Jackie Feldman
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology
Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Beersheba, Israel 84105
Tel: 08-647-2083
Fax: 08-647-2932
Recent book - now in paperback: *Above the Death-Pits, beneath the Flag:
Youth Voyages to Poland and the Performance of Israeli National Identity*,
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York and Oxford: Berghahn Press, 2010.
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