Out of the shadows of history and memory: Personal family narratives in ethnographies of rediscovery

American Ethnologist

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 397-412

  Waterston, Alisse ^a   Rylko Bauer, Barbara ^b  

^a JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Ethnography; Holocaust; Intimate; Life history; Memory; Methodology; Structural violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745903071     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2006.33.3.397     Document Type: Article

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