Monumental Names

Archival Aesthetics and the Conjuration of History in Moscow

Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic

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Routledge
30 December 2022

Storage, maintenance & preservation of collections; Social & cultural anthropology

Series: The Anthropology of History

What stands behind the propensity to remember victims of mass atrocities by their personal names? Grounded in ethnographic and archival research with Last Address and Memorial, one of the oldest independent archives of Soviet political repressions in Moscow and a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, the book examines a version of archival activism that is centred on various practices of documentation and commemoration of many dead victims of historical violence in Russia to understand what kind of historicity is produced when a single name is added to an endless list. What do acts of accumulation of names of the dead affirm when they are concretised in monuments and performance events? The key premise is that multimodal inscriptions of names of the dead entail a political, aesthetic and conceptual movement between singularity and multitude that honours each dead name yet conveys the scale of a mass atrocity without reducing it to a number. Drawing on anthropology, history, philosophy, and aesthetic theory, the book yields a new perspective on the politics of archival and historical justice while it critically engages with the debates on relations and distinctions between names and numbers of the dead, monumental art and its political effects, law and history, image and text, the specific one and the infinite many.

By: Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367701895
ISBN 10: 0367701898
Series: The Anthropology of History
Pages: 182
Publication Date: 30 December 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Name and Number of the Dead; 1 Everyall of the Kommunarka Mass Graves; 2 The Judgment Day of History; 3 A Faceless Name; 4 The Mass of a Mass Atrocity; 5 On Infinite Return of Names of the Dead at the Solovetsky Stone; Conclusion: The Aftermath of the Archive

Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Sociology at the Department of Sociology at the University of Glasgow, UK.