A. Monchamp

Gebundenes Buch

Autobiographical Memory in an Aboriginal Australian Community

Culture, Place and Narrative

Beschreibung

This book shares and analyses the stories of Opal, a senior Alyawarra woman. Through her stories the reader glimpses the harsh colonial realities which many Aboriginal Australians have faced, highlighting the cultural embeddedness of autobiographical memory from a philosophical, psychological and anthropological perspective.

Autor

Anne Marie Monchamp is an independent researcher currently living in Sydney, Australia. As a former Peace Corps volunteer, she has a keen interest in culture and has done fieldwork in the Australian central desert community of Alpurrurulam. She has an MA in anthropology and a PhD in philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-32526-6
• 2014 edition
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781137325266
• ISBN-10: 1137325267
• Artikelnr.: 41094830