Ricordare la violenza. Il contributo di Francesca Cappelletto agli studi sulle memorie di guerra

Journal title DiPAV - QUADERNI
Author/s Fabio Dei
Publishing Year 2010 Issue 2009/26 Language Italian
Pages 12 P. 29-40 File size 664 KB
DOI 10.3280/DIPA2009-026003
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The memory of Nazifascist slaughters of civilians, perpetrated during German occupation of Italy in 1944, has been a central topic in Francesca Cappelletto’s anthropological work. More particularly, Francesca has been doing for almost 15 years ethnographical research in two Tuscan martyr villages, Civitella Val di Chiana e Sant’Anna di Stazzema. In this paper, I try to briefly sketch four important and original aspects of Francesca’s studies: a) the notion of "mnemonic community" as the main subject of public practices of remembrance; b) her critical remarks about the classical notion of "collective memory", and about the role of conflict in shaping public memories; c) the relation between narratives and images in generational transmission of war memories; d) cognitive and ethical problems concerning the relation between researcher and informants in the field of traumatic memory.

Fabio Dei, Ricordare la violenza. Il contributo di Francesca Cappelletto agli studi sulle memorie di guerra in "DiPAV - QUADERNI" 26/2009, pp 29-40, DOI: 10.3280/DIPA2009-026003