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Imperfect Memories

Contemporary Writings on Past and Present

Lenore Manderson Dennis Altman John Bailey Kavita Bedford

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English
Shawline Publishing Group
20 September 2023
IMPERFECT MEMORIES EXPLORES THE RELIEF OF STORYTELLING, DELVING DEEP INTO WORKS BUILT FROM REMINISCENCE AND DISCONNECTION, HUMOUR, STRENGTH AND LOVE... For many, telling stories is a means of survival, of making it through days, weeks, months, years. But capturing the past is tumultuous and flawed at best, influenced always by our capability to grasp the fleeting moments when we can...

In this collection, some of Australia's most talented authors weave threads of their lives - in familiar settings in Australia and in unfamiliar settings in India, Italy, England, Turkey, Russia and beyond.

These powerfully evocative and poignant reflections help make sense of their personal and collective experiences.

Author contributions within are from:

DENNIS ALTMAN, PETER KENNEALLY, JOHN BAILEY, DESMOND MANDERSON, KAVITA BEDFORD, LENORE MANDERSON, KERRIE CLARKE, JILL MOONIE, KATE COLE-ADAMS, KALPANA RAM, JEANNE DALY, K.M. REES, ROSALIE HAM, ALFREDA STRESSAC, CHRISTOPHER HOUSTON, BARBARA TONER, MARCIA JACOBS, SUSAN WALD, MICHAEL JACKSON, BIFF WARD, MEGAN JENNAWAY, L.L. WYNN

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Imprint:   Shawline Publishing Group
Country of Publication:   Australia
ISBN:   9781922993854
ISBN 10:   1922993859
Pages:   246
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Lenore is an author, editor or co-author of 29 books and some 750 articles, book chapters and reports, including Sickness and the State (1996) and Surface Tensions (2011). She edited and cowrote (with E.Cartwright and A.Hardon) the Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology (2016). Recent works include Connected Lives (2020, with N. Mkhwanazi), Viral Loads: Anthropologies of Urgency in the time of Covid-19 (with N.J.Burke and A.Wahlberg, 2021) and work of creative non-fiction Water's Edge (2022, with F.Gander). In 2023, she received the Bronislaw Malinowski Award for applied anthropology. After an extensive career in Australia, Lenore is now a distinguished professor of public health and medical anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and divides her time between Johannesburg and Naarm/Melbourne.

Reviews for Imperfect Memories: Contemporary Writings on Past and Present

"""A great collection of stories and thoughts by some wonderful writers who capture real life in their words and in our hearts..."" Sharon, Readalot Magazine reviewer"


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