Women’s Family Memory as a Subject of Social Anthropology of Eve-riday Life
Keywords:
women's family memory, family memory studies, kinkeeping, women's so-cial memory, women's autobiographical memory, gender features of memory, women's history, social anthropology, women's everyday lifeAbstract
The article is devoted to the problem of women's family memory as a subject of research in the social anthropology of everyday life. The main attention is paid to the identifying the contribution of women's family memory to kinkeeping in noble families in the 19th century. The author specifies the concepts of women's autobiographical, family and social memory, the traditional characteristics of women's noble everyday life, the significance of sources on the history of women's family memory. The article discusses the relationship between the practices of memorization and social experience of women, memory and oblivion in women's autobiographical narrative and the representation of noble everyday life in women's family memory. The author clarifies the possibilities of ethnological study of women's family memory, the prospects of its conceptualization for research in the social anthropology of women's everyday life. The author concludes about the functional connection between the issues of the anthropology of memory and the study of the gender aspects of social experience.