Places of heart : objects and personal memory

Georgevits, SJ

Places of heart : objects and personal memory

Georgevits, SJ

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Issue Date:: 2007

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Georgevits, SJ
dc.date.accessioned	2009-12-23T06:05:15Z
dc.date.accessioned	2012-12-15T03:51:35Z
dc.date.available	2009-12-23T06:05:15Z
dc.date.available	2012-12-15T03:51:35Z
dc.date.issued	2007
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/20044
dc.description	University of Technology, Sydney. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.	en
dc.description.abstract	This thesis focuses on individual memory and personally held objects as an essential source of orientation and coherence in history. The primary theoretical aim of this thesis is to interrogate the contention that conventional public forms of history do not always reflect how individuals negotiate with the past publicly or privately. Through the use of oral testimony to explore the memories attached to the material culture people keep I will consider why particular objects become sites of memory for individuals, how their significance changes as succeeding generations inscribe them with new meanings and speculate on the ways in which the materiality of the objects can contribute to how different generations construct their own sense of the past. Using the interrelationship between the objects and memories which emerge from the interviews I will discuss the establishment of family and cultural traditions, why people invest objects with particular meanings, the role of gender in the keeping of objects and raise issues regarding the place of personal memory and privately held objects in public history and museology.	en
dc.format	Thesis (MA)	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.relation	https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/bitstream/10453/20044/10/02whole.pdf
dc.relation.replaces	http://hdl.handle.net/2100/978
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights	au.edu.uts.lib/ppc
dc.rights	The author owns the copyright in this thesis including all reproduction and reuse rights for the work. The work may not be altered without the permission of the copyright owner. Attribution is essential when quoting or paraphrasing from this thesis.
dc.subject	Memory.	en
dc.subject	Personal archives.	en
dc.subject	Recollection (Psychology).	en
dc.title	Places of heart : objects and personal memory	en
dc.type	Thesis
utslib.copyright.status	open_access

Abstract:

This thesis focuses on individual memory and personally held objects as an essential source of orientation and coherence in history. The primary theoretical aim of this thesis is to interrogate the contention that conventional public forms of history do not always reflect how individuals negotiate with the past publicly or privately. Through the use of oral testimony to explore the memories attached to the material culture people keep I will consider why particular objects become sites of memory for individuals, how their significance changes as succeeding generations inscribe them with new meanings and speculate on the ways in which the materiality of the objects can contribute to how different generations construct their own sense of the past. Using the interrelationship between the objects and memories which emerge from the interviews I will discuss the establishment of family and cultural traditions, why people invest objects with particular meanings, the role of gender in the keeping of objects and raise issues regarding the place of personal memory and privately held objects in public history and museology.

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