https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/22293 Tue, 28 Apr 2026 07:19:02 GMT 2026-04-28T07:19:02Z https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/22367 Chaco Canyon: A Contested Memory Anchor in the North American Southwest Dyke, Ruth M. Van Natural and archaeological places are powerful loci for social memories and continually negotiated meanings. As ‘memory anchors’ they are focal points for the construction of memory and meaning, and can become flashpoints for disputes over access, land-use, and knowledge claims among stakeholders with contradictory interests. In the North American Southwest the competing claims of Native American tribes, archaeologists, government bureaucrats, tourists, and the mining industry come into sharp relief. In this paper, I explore how the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Chaco Canyon figures prominently in the origin stories and sacred geographies of contemporary Pueblo and Navajo peoples – two indigenous groups with competing political stakes in the present. Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/22367 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/22336 Excavating Memory, Burying History. Lessons from the Spanish Civil War González-Ruibal, Alfredo This chapter deals with a case in which work that aimed at rekindling a critical memory of a conflictual past ends up producing a certain form of oblivion instead. The work in question is the archaeological research we conducted at two battlefields of the Spanish Civil War. During our work, we found the traumatic history of the war neutralized through memory practices sponsored, in one case, by government institutions and in another by grassroots associations. In both cases, the involuntary memories materialized in things insisted in disrupting the comfortable narrative that people tried to impose on them. I will argue that archaeologists should work to channel this material memory so as to construct critical accounts of the past that are helpful to foster a more reflexive citizenry. Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/22336 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/22299 Geese and Gauls – the Capitol in the Social Memory of the ‘Gallic Disaster’ Lentzsch, Simon This paper examines some aspects of the ‘Gallic Disaster’ in Roman memory culture, especially the role of the capitol. The capitol as a symbol of Roman resistance against foreign enemies and her dominance over the Mediterranean is the result of a longer development of cultural traditions and included a stylization after Greek accounts of the Persian capture of Athens. It can be shown that the sight of the Capitol stimulated the invention of different versions of the course of events during the siege, the use of historical exempla in speeches, and the development of ritual processions. As a result, the capitol was integrated in the memorial landscape of the city, and the ‘Gallic disaster’ was remembered as an important part of the history of the religious and political center of Rome Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/22299 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/22364 Lieux de Mémoire and Sites of De-Subjectivation Bernbeck, Reinhard This essay consists of four different elements that approach the nexus of memory, place/space and subjectivity in different ways. I start out with a description of the concept of lieux de mémoire as formulated by Pierre Nora, its connections to Marc Augé’s “non-places” and a critique of these ideas. I then discuss the postcolonial notion of Third Space as an alterna- tive approach to the nexus of memory and space. Finally, an archaeological example of a megalithic site in Jordan illustrates the advantages and difficulties of mobilizing the idea of Third Spaces in archaeological contexts. Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/22364 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z