Space, Place, and Mapping ILA387 Spring 2016

How Societies Remember

According to Paul Connerton How Societies Remembers, which serves as a direct response to Halbwach’s On Collective Memory, there is a pattern in what is remember and what is interpreted in history. Historians of marginal communities such as women and Africanist use oxford doctrine and regulations to interpret their own culture . Where Halbwach rejects the separation of history from memory, Connerton in fact defense the different and its effects on society. The study of memory is in fact is the transfer of the information and hence the mental exercise of personal and public memory. There is a value in what we dismiss within this transfer for information and the creation in a collective narrative of public memory, what is shared through written narratives and depicted with the human eye has an impact on how people perceive history. Through Facebook the Garifuna community share information, narratives and depictions of memories. Facebook serves as an imagined community that can create public memory through images and sounds. Sharing videos, narratives and picture through the community serves its transnational purpose and trans-generational. Through Facebook Garifuna people explain the rites and rituals of the cultural and expand the knowledge of the heritage. With the help of their peers older members of the community remember says and rituals from their childhood and the younger generation begin to learn the language and the foundation of the culture.

But the feature which they all share, and which sets them apart from the more general category of rites, is that they do not simply imply continuity with the past but explicitly claim such continuity (Connerton 45).



Connerton, Paul. How Societies Remember. London: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
 

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