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Anthropology
Research on anthropology discussed by R. Littlewood and co-researchers
March 14th, 2009
According to a study from London, the United Kingdom, "A new dispensation demands that details, indeed memories, of the old ways be forgotten as fresh ideals and modes of action become paramount. This article proposes that an initial step in forgetting involves neglect - more specifically the neglect of certain patterns of comportment or material evidence or practice that recall a past now considered undesirable." "In a millennialist Caribbean community, past memories and technical practices are discouraged by 'ideological work' that constantly weighs the old order against a new world in the process of creation: 'directed forgetting'. For a post-communist Albanian...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2009-03-14)
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