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Narrativity and indebtedness are inextricably intertwined. Absolvere, in Latin, means both to "pay off" a debt and to "relate" a historical event that has reached its conclusion, that is complete (absolutum). In the Arabian Nights, Scheherazade tells many stories about debt and debtors; but it is also her very narration that she evokes as the redeeming of a debt ("I am willing to pay my debt," she says when resuming her story at the beginning of the Twelfth Night). Following some of Walter Benjamin's insights, this essay delves into the economy of narration as finance, a word that used to mean "ending." And it asks: since when has finance become without an end?

Three anthropological ways of narrating the historical formation of Maya identity have recently been outlined in an article by Kay Warren on intergenerational struggles of Mayan families in Guatemala. According to the anti‐racism scheme, Maya identity forms as a reaction to ethnic opposition. The cultural continuity approach treats identity formation as persistence that occurs in spite of ethnic oppression. The third, 'mestizaje' school of thought argues that assimilation has eroded indigenous identity to the extent that it only makes sense to speak of an intermediary ladino (or mestizo) category. Warren argues that the previous antagonism between ethnographic approaches has obscured the coexistence of these narrations in families, where discontinuity and rejection of traditional Maya identities interplay with continuity and revitalisation. In this paper, I compare the narrations of shifting identities in Guatemala to local representations of socio‐cultural change in Yucutan. Based upon research in Oxkutzcab, I attempt to show how the interpretations of intergenerational changes in language, dress, and occupation relate to a set of local and regional events that evade the mutually exclusive meta‐narratives of change.

The role of narration in the revolutionary process, the meaning of the conquest of a place. The event is what can be narrated. Then history becomes active. If there were only long movements, history would be only a series of long sleeping periods.

In a new and updated edition, Writing Histories: Imagination and Narration is a book for anyone wanting to write histories that capture the imagination and challenge the intellect. It aims to show that historical narrative and imagination can work together to produce works of history that are a pleasure to read. Nine historians reflect on their work as writers, exploring some of the most difficult and interesting questions any history-writer faces: how to get started, how to find a 'voice', how to enliven a description or a narration, and how to find a worthwhile structure. Contributors also suggest how historians can convey multiple perspectives, 'show' rather than tell, foreground the research process, find inspiration from music, painting and landscape, and use literary techniques such as metaphor. The book will be a useful text for teachers and students in history-writing classes and informal groups. There are suggestions for group exercises, and advice on how to conduct writing workshops. Many historians, however, both students and established writers, will continue to write in relative isolation. This book is also intended for them. This updated edition of Writing Histories has a new introduction written by Ann Curthoys, and an updated bibliography.

AbstractThis paper analyses the variegated narratives by 'minority nationalities' in China, hoping to understand the dynamics of their ethnic consciousness. I focus on the Mongols in Henan Mongolian Autonomous County of Qinghai Province – hereafter Henanmengqi – where 'Tibetanisation' has been longstanding in culture and language. In recent decades, they have been subject to the state's ethnic classification and thus have been conscious of their relationship with the neighbouring Tibetans and other Mongols in and out of Qinghai. In this paper, the following themes on their daily experiences are discussed: What significance does the nationality category of Sogpo ('Mongol' in Tibetan) hold for the Henanmengqi people? Who (which group) should or should not be included in Sogpo? In what situation does the semantic content of Sogpo change? The Henanmengqi people are not free to choose their nationality category, and are often caught in the conflicting categorisations by the state administrators, scholars, other Tibetans and Mongols. I pay particular attention to the power dynamics in such relationships and the strategies taken by the Henanmengqi people to negotiate with external powers to form their nationality behaviours. Finally, I will discuss in general the characteristics of what may be called the grammar or reality of 'homemade narration' by ethnic minorities.

"Political Narratosophy offers a critically subversive rethinking of the political and philosophical significance of narrative, and why feminist epistemology and feminist social theory matters for the meaning of the 'self' and narrativity. Through a re-examination of the notions of democracy and emancipation, Senka Anastasova coins the term 'political narratosophy', a unique interpretation of the philosophy of narrative, identification, and disidentification, developed in conversation with philosophers Jacques Rancière, Nancy Fraser, and Paul Ricoeur. Utilizing the author's own identity as a feminist philosopher has lived in socialist Yugoslavia, post-Yugoslavia, and Macedonia (now North Macedonia), Anastasova explores the fluctuating and disappearing borders around which identity is situated in a country that no longer exists. She expertly reveals how the subject finds, makes and unmakes itself through narrativity, politics, and imagination. Political Narratosophy is an important intervention in political philosophy and a welcome contribution to the historiography on female authors who lived through twentieth century communism and its aftermath. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers in the fields of political theory, philosophy, women's studies, international relations, identity studies, (comparative) literary studies, and aesthetics studies"--

The article examines the involvement of Yugoslav geographers in the multifaceted process of constructing the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes between the final stage of the First World War and the mid-1920s, when Yugoslavia's external boundaries and internal arrangement were temporarily settled. Researchers have recognized Jovan Cvijić as the leading scientist behind the political-geographical legitimation of the newly created Yugoslav state. This article, however, examines the role of two hitherto neglected Yugoslav geographers—the Slovene Anton Melik and the Croat Filip Lukas—in the process of constructing the Yugoslav national space. This process, in fact, only intensified after the 1918 publication of Cvijić's seminal work La Péninsule balkanique. Whereas Cvijić aimed at an international readership, the construction of Yugoslav national space by Croat and Slovene geographers was primarily a domestic enterprise; these were geographies of Yugoslavia by Yugoslav geographers, narrating Yugoslavia to Yugoslav readership. For a period, scholars from Ljubljana and Zagreb rather than Belgrade influenced the project of the geographical narration of Yugoslavia, and approached the pressing contemporary political issues in geographical works in a manner that revealed both connections and tensions between discourses of "center" and "periphery."

The narrative of the beginnings of the Juda monarchy in the Chronics book is discussed in the narrative techniques used there. The examination shows that narrative art is put at the service of an ideology that favours narrative processes that minimise the polyseaemia of the narrative. ; Le récit des débuts de la monarchie en Juda dans le livre des Chroniques est examiné au niveau des techniques narratives qui y sont utilisées. L'examen montre que l'art narratif est mis au service d'une idéologie qui fait préférer des procédés narratifs qui limitent au maximum la polysémie du récit.

Inklusion als Aufgabe des Zusammenlebens und -lernens von Menschen verschiedener Fähigkeiten, Kulturen, Geschlechtern, Religionen u.a. wird häufig aus der Außenperspektive untersucht, d.h. hinsichtlich struktureller Vorgaben, Bedingungen und Zielen. Narration als Schlüssel zur Inklusionsthematik lässt dagegen die beteiligten Personen selbst zu Wort kommen: Kinder, Jugendliche und Erwachsene entfalten Selbstdarstellungen, die in Auseinandersetzung mit Menschen, Texten, Orten und Metaphern ihre Geschichte erzählen. Durch die Konfrontation der großen Erzählungen, wie denen der Religionen und Kulturen, mit den kleinen Erzählungen des Alltags werden so individuell gestaltete und geprägte Zugehörigkeiten bzw. Ausschlüsse sichtbar. Religionspädagogische, heil- und sonderpädagogische, erziehungs- und kunstwissenschaftliche sowie politikdidaktische Perspektiven fokussieren das zentrale inklusive Bildungsziel, verschiedene Weltsichten und Sprachformen sowie deren Interpretationen unterscheiden und für eigene Worte gebrauchen zu lernen.

This interdisciplinary volume critically investigates the value and topicality of the concept of community in postcolonial language situations as well as in postcolonial texts and media. Both in actual and in imagined communities, membership is constructed on an assumption of shared features - be it common values, linguistic codes, geographical origin, gender, sexual identity, ethnicity, religion, professional group or joint interests and practices. But how is membership in such communities achieved, manifested, tested or contested? What new forms of community have developed in the wake of globalisation, translocation and digital media communication? Eighteen contributions by scholars in linguistics, literary and cultural studies explore the role of communication, narratives, memory and trauma in processes of belonging or unbelonging in postcolonial contexts