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Memory and Nation Building


Memory and Nation Building

From Ancient Times to the Islamic State

von: Michael L. Galaty

35,99 €

Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 16.08.2018
ISBN/EAN: 9780759122628
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 224

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<span><span>Memory and Nation Building </span><span>addresses the complex topic of collective memory, first described by sociologist Maurice Halbwachs in the first half of the 20</span><span><sup>th</sup></span><span> century. Author Michael Galaty argues that the first states appropriated traditional collective memory systems in order to form. With this in mind, he compares three Mediterranean societies – Egypt, Greece, and Albania – each of which experienced very different trajectories of state formation. Galaty attributes these differences to varying responses to collective memory in all three places through time, with climaxes in the Ottoman period, during which all three were under Ottoman control. Egypt was characterized by deeply meaningful memory tropes concerning national unity, which spanned all of Egyptian history, while Greece experienced memory fragmentation, a condition exacerbated by periods of imperial conquest. Albania adapted and assimilated when faced with foreign domination, such that an indigenous Albanian state did not form until 1912.</span></span>
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<span><span><br>Galaty builds a diachronic model of state formation and its relationship to memory and political control. </span><span>Memory and Nation Building</span><span> culminates in an analysis of modern collective memory systems and resistance to those systems, which are often framed as conflicts over “heritage”. The formation and eventual fall of the short-lived Islamic State serves as an example of extreme memory work, with lessons for other modern nations.</span></span>
<span><span>This book is about how human societies form collective, i.e. shared, memories, with implications for how nations, ancient and modern, are built. Understanding how nations manipulate the collective memory making process is key to explaining the behaviors of various state and non-state actors, such as the Islamic State.</span></span>
<span><span>Michael L. Galaty is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan and directs the University of Michigan’s Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He directs collaborative field research projects in Albania and Greece, and, beginning in 2018, in Kosovo. From 1998-2003 he co-directed the Mallakastra Regional Archaeological Project (MRAP) in central Albania, a program of survey and excavation in the hinterland of the Greek colonial city of Apollonia. From 2004-2008, he co-directed the Shala Valley Project (SVP), an interdisciplinary regional research project focused on the Shala Valley of northern highland Albania. The SVP final report, titled </span><span>Light and Shadow: Isolation and Interaction in the Shala Valley of Northern Albania</span><span>, won the Society for American Archaeology’s 2013 Scholarly Book Award. From 2010-2014, he co-directed the Projekti Arkeologjik i Shkodres (PASH), focused on the northern Albanian region of Shkodra, and The Diros Project, focused on Alepotrypa Cave in the Mani, Greece.<br>Galaty has primary interests in the archaeology of complex societies and the formation of social inequalities. His work is strongly interdisciplinary and focused on regional landscapes. A trained archaeometrist, he often employs scientific methods, including petrography, mass spectroscopy, and portable x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy to study interactions between archaeological populations. He has published numerous edited volumes, including </span><span>Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces</span><span>, </span><span>Archaeology Under Dictatorship</span><span>, and </span><span>Archaic State Interaction</span><span>. The latter was the result of an Advanced Seminar at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has published nearly 100 articles on topics ranging from Albanian bunkers to Greek-Egyptian trade.</span></span>

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