Issue 3 (84)
| A MEMORIAL BUILDING AS A SOURCE FOR THE HISTORY OF MEMORY: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO STUDYING | |||
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| Year | 2024 | Number | 3 (84) |
| Pages | 98-106 | Type | scientific article |
| UDC | 930.2 | BBK | 63.2 |
| Authors | Popov Aleksey D. |
Topic | MODERN SOURCE STUDIES: BETWEEN TRADITIONS AND INNOVATIONS |
| Summary | The article proposes an author’s model for analyzing memorial structures as specific but very important sources for memory studies. On the one hand, the memorials themselves are real, pictorial, narrative, sometimes also audio sources, and observation of interaction with them provides ethnographic (socio-anthropological) information. However, this is just the tip of the iceberg, since analyzing the process of creating and functioning a memorial building in comparison with other monuments based on a wide range of traditional sources much more significantly expands our ideas about the dynamics of collective memory, official memory policy and memorial culture. Therefore, a comprehensive study of memorials is necessary, taking account of their morphology (location, structure, shape, size, architectural-symbolic, narrative, audio content), “biography” (the main stages of creation and functioning) and “genealogy” (dependence on general historical, commemorative, creative trends, as well as the relationship with other memorials through the activities of various actors). The explicit attribution of memorials to material sources in the classifications of M. N. Tikhomirov, L. N. Pushkarev, I. D. Kovalchenko and S. O. Schmidt simplifies reality and can lead to a significant decrease in the heuristic potential of their use. Debatable is the attribution of memorials to visual sources by I. M. Savelyeva and A. V. Poletaev. According to the author of the article, the complexity and multidimensionality of memorial structures as an object of study may require their separation into a separate classification type of historical sources. | ||
| Keywords | collective memory, memory policy, commemoration, memorial conflict, monumental art, monument, historical source | ||
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