Publication at Faculty of Social Sciences |
2013
Abstract
Family is a specific mnemonic community and family memory can be seen as a place of intersection of individual and collective memories. The paper questions the reasons why families recreate their family memories.
The material for the analysis comes from interwiews with three generations of families living in Czech-German borderland. Their "good reasons" to work on their family memories are classified into four clusters: reassessment of the past, struggles for justice, coping with ambivalent past, and past as a practical knowledge.
The study ends with reflections on the very weak independence of family memories, and the conditions of family memories "life" in contemporary Czech society