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POLITICAL SONGS, COLLECTIVE MEMORIES, AND KIKUYU INDI SCHOOLS
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Peris Wanjira Gachau was eleven years old when she first attended Ngoigo Independent School in 1948. She enjoyed, most of all, singing the songs her teachers taught her and other students concerning the significance of education, stolen Kikuyu land, and the promise of African independence in Kenya. "Our teachers taught us lessons of our history, culture, elders, as well as our future; and we sang in the mornings, in the afternoons, and on our way home from school, everyday."3 Accordi...
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; IN RECENT YEARS, collective memory in ancient Israel has emerged as a significant subject in biblical studies. While memory in broad terms has long been studied, collective memory as a cultural phenomenon has come into its own only in the last decade in the biblical and ancient Near Eastern fields.
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Troubled Pasts: News and the Collective Memory of Social Unrest
Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
; Troubled Pasts: News and the Collective Memory of Social Unrest ... officers accused of assaulting Rodney King. News media immediately drew connections to the ... in the United States and the role of the news media and political elites in constructing ...
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SYMBOLIC URBAN SPACES AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF LOCAL COLLECTIVE MEMORY: A COMPARISON OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGOYA, JAPAN
Journal of Political and Military Sociology
; Drawing from theoretical and empirically based literature, as well as the author's own field research, this article compares the relationship between symbolic urban spaces and collective memory in the cities of Nagoya and Hiroshima, Japan. Focusing on each city's historic castle, as well as
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Teaching History
; Mummy, Mummy, what's collective memory? Not now, dear. Mummy's trying to work out whether this new Year 9 set is taking history gCSE in one year, two years or time years. I think it's called the 14-19 curriculum. Maybe they're not taking it at all. But what is it? I think you must be referring to
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Both sides of the Massacre: collective memory and narrative on Hispaniola.(Critical Essay)
Mosaic (Winnipeg)
; Julia Alvarez and Edwidge Danticat reveal how Dominicans and Haitians remember and commemorate the atrocities of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's regime. While historical discourse is often inaccessible to marginalized communities, Alvarez and Danticat create narrative space that includes the experiences
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Ever again: legal remembrance of administrative massacre. (use of criminal prosecution to affect collective memory of state-sponsored murder)
University of Pennsylvania Law Review
; Table of Contents Introduction 464 I. How Prosecution Assists Collective Memory and How Memory Furthers Social Solidarity 470 A. Crime, Consensus, and Solidarity 478 B. Solidarity Through Civil Dissensus 489 II. Legal Shaping of Collective Memory: Six Obstacles 505 A. Defendants' rights,
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Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making.(Book Review)
Church History
; Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making. By Elizabeth A. Castelli. Gender, Theory and Religion. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. xvii + 335 pp. $40.00 cloth. Hardly anyone would dispute the claim that the martyrdom of Christians in the early centuries of the Common Era had a
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Memory in an Amnesic World: Holocaust, Exile, and the Return of the Suppressed
Anthropological Quarterly
; Abstract In recent years, much first hand material has been collected by various institutions documenting the experience of Holocaust survivors. A constant stream of new primary documents and secondary analyses is being published. These accounts show some common themes, yet no two experiences are
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Feminists Navigating the Shoals of Nationalism and Collaboration: The Post-Colonial Korean Debate over How to Remember Kim Hwallan
Frontiers
; Collective memory refers to the many versions of recollecting a particular critical time in a nation's past.1 Carol Gluck describes such collective memories as the products of recollecting gathered by "historians, officials, schools, mass media, filmmakers, writers, museums and monuments, public
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CULTURAL PRODUCTION IN THE LEBANESE DIASPORA: MEMORY, NOSTALGIA AND DISPLACEMENT1
Journal of Political and Military Sociology
; This article explores the ways Lebanese disaporic artists contribute to the construction of collective memory in their homelands and among the diaspora community. Portraying the homeland is an important theme in the works of these artists. However, these portrayals are influenced by the context of
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