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Cemeteries and the Decline of the Occult: From Ghosts to Memory in the Modern Age
New places for the dead - cemeteries - were from the start understood as places of memory in which the undead and sleepless dead, ghosts and spirits did not abide. Anxieties about the public health problems of old burial grounds were born of a new interest to separate the dead from the living; memory replaced the corpse as the placeholder for the deceased; a secular geography replaced a sacred one. The essay ends with the speculation that the popularity of the occult in late nineteenth century Europe might have been a response to the novel segregation of the dead.New places for the dead - cemeteries - were from the start understood as places of memory in which the undead and sleepless dead, ghosts and spirits did not abide. Anxieties about the public health problems of old burial grounds were born of a new interest to separate the dead from the living; memory replaced the corpse as the placeholder for the deceased; a secular geography replaced a sacred one. The essay ends with the speculation that the popularity of the occult in late nineteenth century Europe might have been a response to the novel segregation of the dead
Afro-americanos, linchamientos y memoria : Equal Justice Initiative Project o el terrible don de la compasiĂłn
Primo Levi en The Drowned and the Saved sugiere que el estar presente ante nosotros es lo que hace posible que sintamos lĂĄstima por un ?co-humano? y actuemos de acuerdo con nuestros sentimientos. Nos preocupamos por los demĂĄs en relaciĂłn inversa a la distancia que nos separa de ellos. Por lo que respecta a los muertos, situados al otro lado de un abismo en apariencia insalvable, se encuentran inconmensurablemente mĂĄs lejos de nosotros que incluso el mĂĄs distante de los vivos. Es el arte ?en su significado mĂĄs amplio? lo que nos enseña a sentir por ellos y lo que genera un relato en el que sus cuerpos y huesos importan. Es el arte lo que hace que los muertos vivan de nuevo de maneras importantes dentro de la cultura. Este artĂculo toma como caso de estudio el nuevo National Lynching Memorial en Montgomery Alabama
Lâusage de la catĂ©gorie de genre. RĂ©ponse de Thomas Laqueur Ă Annick Jaulin
Il est difficile, aprĂšs avoir Ă©crit tout un livre sur le thĂšme de la diffĂ©rence sexuelle, dâapporter de nouvelles preuves pour dĂ©fendre les points de vue quâAnnick Jaulin met en question dans le numĂ©ro 14 de CLIO, Histoire, Femmes et SociĂ©tĂ©s. Elle a raison dâaffirmer que lâusage que je fais de la catĂ©gorie de « genre » dans lâexamen des sources prĂ©modernes, est confus et peut-ĂȘtre inappropriĂ©. Jâai moi-mĂȘme essayĂ© de le suggĂ©rer autant que faire se peut. Le mot lui- mĂȘme a longtemps Ă©tĂ© util..
Afterword
Reflections on the special issue 'Divided by Death? Staging Mortality in the Early Modern Low Countries'
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