Research Methods for the Arts and Humanities: Research Methods for Memory Studies

Editor/Author Knightley, Emily and Pickering, Michael
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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ISBN: 978-0-74-864596-1
Category: Arts & Leisure - Art & Art History
Image Count: 4
Book Status: Available
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This guide provides students and researchers with a clear set of outlines and discussions of particular methods of research in memory studies. It offers not only expert appraisals of a range of techniques, approaches and perspectives, but also focuses on key questions of methodology in order to help bring unity and coherence to this new field of study.

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Table of Contents

  • Introduction: Methodological Premises and Purposes - Michael Pickering and Emily Keightley
  • SECTION ONE MEMORY AND IDENTITY
  • 1. Autobiographical Memory - Robyn Fivush
  • 2. Oral History and Remembering - Joanna Bornat
  • SECTION TWO QUALITIES OF MEMORY
  • 3. Experience and Memory - Steven D. Brown and Paula Reavey
  • 4. Between Official and Vernacular Memory - Sabina Mihelj
  • SECTION THREE MEDIA AND MEMORY
  • 5. Televised Remembering - Ann Gray
  • 6. Vernacular Remembering - Michael Pickering and Emily Keightley
  • SECTION FOUR LOCATIONS OF MEMORY
  • 7. Memoryscapes and Multi-Sited Methods - Paul Basu
  • 8. Ethnicity and Memory - Amanda Kearney
  • SECTION FIVE DISTURBED MEMORY
  • 9. Painful Pasts - Emily Keightley and Michael Pickering
  • 10. Disrupted Childhoods - Jo Aldridge and Chris Dearden
  • SECTION SIX CONFESSING AND WITNESSING
  • 11. Apologia - Cristian Tileagă
  • 12. Testimony - Jovan Byford
  • Bibliography
  • Notes on Contributors