| Abstract | Memory is a powerful tool. It invokes the senses: a smell, a familiar touch, an image, a sound once heard before can transport us not only to different times but also to different places (see Tuan 1977). With each memory stimulus we conjure the context of those places, whether they be spatially defined and geographically delimited or immaterial, allegorical places- we situate our memories to place and to time. Memory can connect us to our individual pasts and to the past (as we know it) of those of our closest kin, and does so through the narration of family histories. [...]
|
