| The Testimony of Lives: Narrative and memory in post-Soviet Latvia Contributor(s): Skultans, Vieda (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415162904 ISBN-13: 9780415162906 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $54.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1997 Annotation: Vieda Skultans left Latvia as a refugee at the age of six months. In 1990, she returned for the first time. This remarkable book is both a personal account of a homecoming and an anthropology of a people trying to come to terms with its past and to face an uncertain future. Based on more than 100 interviews carried out in the wake of Latvian independence, it gives voice to the stories that could not be told under Soviet rule--stories of dispossession and exile and of ambiguous returns. At the same time it unpicks the process of memory itself, showing how personal memory is shaped by the traditional narratives of national history and culture. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 947.960 |
| LCCN: 97-12949 |
| Lexile Measure: 1060 |
| Series: Economies of Asia; 10 |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 6.14" W x 9.14" (1.01 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Vieda Skultans left Latvia as a refugee at the age of six months. In 1990, she returned for the first time. This text is both a personal account of a homecoming and an anthropology of a people trying to come to terms with its past and to face an uncertain future. Based on more than 100 interviews carried out in the wake of Latvian independence, it gives voice to stories of dispossession and exile and of ambiguous returns. At the same time it unpicks the process of memory itself, showing how personal memory is shaped by the traditional narratives of national history and culture. |