A01=Vieda Skultans
Author_Vieda Skultans
Baltic German
Baltic studies
Category=DNBH
Category=JHM
Category=NHD
Category=NHTB
Dark Places
Daugava
Densest
Destiny
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ethnographic interviews
exile and displacement
forest
Forest Brothers
Forest Narratives
Held
Ill
illness
Illness Narratives
Large Family
latvia
latvian
Latvian Forest
Latvian Legion
Latvian Peasants
legion
literature
Mid-day
narrative identity formation
narratives
North
oral history research
pastoral
Pastoral Vision
post-Soviet Latvia
post-Soviet Latvian memory narratives
Post-war
soviet
Soviet Latvia
Testimony
Timeless
trauma and memory studies
vision
Wo
Yellow Water Lilies
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415162890
- Weight: 460g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 27 Nov 1997
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Vieda Skultans left Latvia as a refugee at the age of six months. In 1990, she returned for the first time. This text is both a personal account of a homecoming and an anthropology of a people trying to come to terms with its past and to face an uncertain future. Based on more than 100 interviews carried out in the wake of Latvian independence, it gives voice to stories of dispossession and exile and of ambiguous returns. At the same time it unpicks the process of memory itself, showing how personal memory is shaped by the traditional narratives of national history and culture.
Vieda Skultans is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Bristol.
