Review: Conflict archaeology, historical memory, and the experience of war: beyond the battlefield (M.A. Tveskov and A.A. Bissonnette, eds.). Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2023

CIARLO, NICOLÁS C.

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Durham University

Lugar: Durham; Año: 2023 vol. 97 p. 1639 - 1641

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The reverberations of history in people’s lifeways and thoughts and its particular representations have long been addressed by the social/human sciences. As early as the mid-twentieth century, Edward Evans-Pritchard stressed the strong links between historical and anthropological perspectives and their potential for understanding society’s past and present (Evans-Pritchard 1950). Historical memory is now acknowledged as a dynamic and multi-layered entity tied to present conflict arenas. The book Conflict archaeology, historical memory, and the experience of war is a ground-breaking collective contribution that critically explores how memory is constructed and reconstructed through narratives of the past, which are disputed across asymmetric relationships and often at different scales.