A sweet and amnesic present: the postcolonial landscape and memory makings in Cape Verde

Sarmento, João Carlos Vicente

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“…see, for example, Johnson (1995), Marshall (2004), Muzaini (2013), sarmento (2009), Till (2003, Tyner et al (2012), andWithers (1996). 2.…”

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“…That space is central to understanding the processes and practices implicated in remembering is reflected in the significant contribution that geographers have made to the burgeoning literature on memory in recent years (as reviewed by Legg, 2007). Much of this work has been concerned with public spaces and collective or social memory, not uncommonly associated with war (heffernan, 1995;Johnson, 1999;Muzaini, 2013), violence and tragedy (Foote, 2003;sarmento, 2009;Tyner, Alvarez, & colucci, 2012) and national monuments, heritage sites and museums. 1 These all represent what Nora (1989) has referred to as lieux de mémoire -places of memory -which, in the modern period, are specific places where du passé, remettant en question des idées conventionnelles au sujet de la nature faussée de la nostalgie.…”

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Re-imagining the kitchen as a site of memory

Meah

Jackson

2015

Social & Cultural Geography

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Extending the focus of previous geographical research on public spaces of remembering, this paper demonstrates the ways in which memory work also takes place in private domestic spaces. The paper draws on a combination of life history and ethnographic research undertaken in Northern England, examining kitchens as a specific lieu de mémoire, showing how they serve as places where valued items are displayed and material artefacts are curated as part of the construction and reproduction of personal memories and familial identities. Using ethnographic and visual evidence from two case study households, the paper demonstrates the role of material artefacts in curating the past and materialising memory. Additionally, life history interviews with older women reveal narratives of everyday cooking practices which seemingly contradict popular discourses of the past, questioning conventional ideas about the distorted nature of nostalgia. In combination, our data represent complex narratives in which the past can be seen as infusing the present, and where present-day concerns are revealed as actively shaping public discourses which favour a return to an idealised past, which may have little bearing on people's actual lived experience. Ré-imaginer la cuisine en tant que site de mémoire RÉSUMÉElargissant le domaine des recherches géographiques précédentes sur les lieux publics de mémoire, cet article démontre comment le travail de mémoire a aussi lieu dans les espaces domestiques privés. L'article exploite un ensemble d'histoires de vies et de recherches ethnographiques menées au Nord de l'Angleterre et examine des cuisines en tant que lieu de mémoire spécifique tout en montrant comment elles servent de lieux où des objets appréciés ont été exposés et des objets anciens conservés, dans le cadre de la construction et de la reproduction de souvenirs personnels et d'identités familiales. Utilisant des preuves ethnographiques et visuelles d'études de cas de deux foyers, l'article démontre le rôle d'objets matériels dans la conservation du passé et la matérialisation de la mémoire. De plus, des entretiens sur des histoires de vie avec des femmes plus âgées révèlent des récits de pratiques culinaires quotidiennes qui contredisent apparemment les discours populaires MOTS CLÉS

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“…see, for example, Johnson (1995), Marshall (2004), Muzaini (2013), sarmento (2009), Till (2003, Tyner et al (2012), andWithers (1996). 2.…”

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

Re-imagining the kitchen as a site of memory

Meah

Jackson

2015

Social & Cultural Geography

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“…The cathedral restoration, funded by the Portuguese Ministry of Culture, took place around the same time (and is ongoing), and the church and ruins of the Convent of S. Francisco were restored through similar collaborations. These projects have been primarily concerned with stabilising the physical remains, and in so doing, enhancing the visitor attraction of the sites, and their conservation added little to existing knowledge about the town although they play a role in attracting cultural tourism to Cape Verde (for a critique of these projects, see Sarmento 2009). …”

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The Challenges and Potentials of Archaeological Heritage in Africa—Cape Verdean Reflections

Sørensen

Evans

2011

Afr Archaeol Rev

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This paper considers three different ways that heritage can be considered fragile-as a reference to the conservation status of the physical heritage, as a concern for the meaning of the heritage, and in terms of threats to the knowledge potentials. It also briefly considers any special conditions that may characterise the threats to heritage in Africa and the consequential challenges to its heritage managers and politicians. On this basis, the experiences of working on one of the first systematic archaeological projects in Cape Verde are used to think about how these challenges are encountered within a specific place but from the viewpoint of foreigners and archaeologists.Résumé Cet article envisage trois aspects différents sous lesquels un patrimoine peut être considéré comme fragile: tout d'abord en référence a sa vulnérabilité physique, puis a la fragilité de sa valorisation en tant que patrimoine et finalement dans le sens des menaces posées aux connaissances potentielles qu'il représente. Il examine également brièvement les conditions particulières régnant en Afrique pouvant représenter des menaces pour la conservation du patrimoine et les défis qui en résultent pour les responsables politiques et les gestionnaires du patrimoine. A partir de cette base et de l'expérience gagnée en travaillant à l'un des premiers chantiers archéologiques systématiques au Cap Vert, nous engageons une réflexion sur la manière dont ces difficultés ont été surmontées dans un environnement particulier mais du point de vue d'étrangers et d'archéologues.

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“…Memory is the source for the presentation of local characteristics and landscape can evoke people's memories of the past [6]. The construction of festival memory in landscape is a complex process embedded in political and economic power [7]. Against a background of globalization and urbanization, Zhucun is faced with an amnesic crisis [8].…”

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The Revival and Restructuring of a Traditional Folk Festival: Cultural Landscape and Memory in Guangzhou, South China

Hui-ling

Wei

2017

Sustainability

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Abstract:Landscape is an important object for research on local culture from a cultural geographical perspective. It is the spatial nature of memory that has seen the integrative study of memory and landscape receive increased attention from human geographers. The Qiqiao Festival is a traditional folk festival in the Lingnan region of Southern China. After half a century of suppression, the Qiqiao Festival in Zhucun was publically revitalized as the Guangzhou Qiqiao Cultural Festival, which coincided with the changing structure and significance of the landscape. This paper selected Zhucun, a typical urban village, as its case study and constructed an index system of festival landscapes. Through in-depth interviews, this paper studied the revival and restructure process of the Qiqiao Festival, and the role that landscapes play in the formation mechanism of memory on the part of subjects with different identities. The results showed that the elite and the local government selectively restructure festival landscapes, replacing authentic landscapes with "official" ones. The selection and production of a festival landscape constructed different memories among the subjects, where the festival memory of grassroots villagers was self-constructed and mostly came from traditional festival landscape elements while top-down interventions in the festival landscape constructed a different "official" memory for citizens and migrants to those of the villagers. The contemporary festival deviates from the original, which has weakened the conscious degree of cultural evolution and has had a reaction on the authenticity of memory. This research serves a reference for approaches in planning and conserving intangible cultural heritage in historic villages.

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A sweet and amnesic present: the postcolonial landscape and memory makings in Cape Verde

Cited by 15 publications

References 31 publications

Re-imagining the kitchen as a site of memory

Re-imagining the kitchen as a site of memory

The Challenges and Potentials of Archaeological Heritage in Africa—Cape Verdean Reflections

The Revival and Restructuring of a Traditional Folk Festival: Cultural Landscape and Memory in Guangzhou, South China

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