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How Generations Remember

Monika Palmberger

2016268 pagesabout 4–6 hours
2016
first published
  • 2016Palgrave Macmillan · ENGISBN 9781349686674
  • 2016Palgrave Macmillan · 268 pages · ENGISBN 9781137450623
  • 2016Springer Nature · 268 pagesISBN 9781137450630

This book provides a profound insight into post-war Mostar, and the memories of three generations of this Bosnian-Herzegovinian city. Drawing on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, it offers a vivid account of how personal and collective memories are utterly intertwined, and how memories across the generations are reimagined and ?rewritten? following great socio-political change. Focusing on both Bosniak-dominated East Mostar and Croat-dominated West Mostar, it demonstrates that, even in this ethno-nationally divided city with its two divergent national historiographies, generation-specific experiences are crucial in how people ascribe meaning to past events.

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