AMST 384 1st Edition Lecture 1Outline of First LectureI. Syllabus and Memory/TraditionOutline of Current Lecture II. Distortion in MemoryA. InventoryIII. Collective MemoryIV. Invented Traditiona. “Community is Imagined”Current LectureDistortion- Amerigo Vespucci is the man where we got the name for our country from: “America”o Discovered the New World and American Hemisphere- Distortion in how we remember/see the worldo Ex: Is the United States the only America? What about Latin or Central America? -distortion- Inventory by Antonio Gramscio What degree does history have effect on youo What theories are you aware of o Begins with “knowing yourself”o Infinity of Traces Expose traces we don’t know about- Quote: “There is no such thing as an individual memory that is independent of a collective one” – Hans-Thies LehmannCollective Memory- Memory of individuals is relied on frameworks of social memory- Groups most frequently distort the past in the act of reconstructing it- This is why society erases memory that separates individualsInvented Tradition- Eric Hobsbaun- Set of practices or accepted rules, which seek to certain values by repetition These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.- Automatically implies continuity with pasto Ex: Christmas is on Dec 25th every year, New Years Celebration is fictious because the calendar socially constructed ito Largely fictiouso Denies what came before traditiono Distortion and illusion- Memory Studieso MartiaSturkeno Inventive social practice through which different stories has a place in historyo Memories and histories often become entangled and co-constitutive They feed off each other Most times as myth Who gets to tell how the history wento “to map the geography of memory is to reimpose narrative on democracy of versions” –Stuart McConnell- “Community is Imagined” o Antonio Gramscio How we imagine ourselves belonging to a communityo Components that make you believe you exist in a groupo Becomes a phantasm of the intellecto A fetish- Example of an Invented Tradition:o Betsy Ross selling the American Flag-site of memory, symbolic but never really
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