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URL:https://www.literaturseiten-muenchen.de/veranstaltungen/book-talk-with
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SUMMARY:Book Talk with Marc David: Remembering the Cajun Past
DESCRIPTION:Join us when anthropologist Marc David talks about his recent p
 ublication\, Remembering the Cajun Past: Memory\, Race\, and the Politics 
 of Public History in Louisiana.\n\nThis event is free. No registration nec
 essary.\n\nCajuns arrived in southern Louisiana in the 18th century after 
 the British exiled them from eastern Canada. Also known as Acadians\, they
  retain a unique dialect of French\, and their distinctive music\, food\, 
 and other cultural traits characterized them as an ethnic group. Until the
  1960s\, authorities viewed them as a serious problem\, allegedly blocking
  the state’s progress as they clung to their antiquated ways. Few Cajun 
 residents in the region remembered the remote past of their ancestors\, bu
 t by the 1970s\, organizations ranging from local non-profits to the Natio
 nal Park Service created sites that commemorated their history\, such as t
 he Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville\, allowing Cajuns to connect their 
 lives to their past and claim it as their own.\n\nIn Remembering the Cajun
  Past\, anthropologist Marc David studies the cultural and political dynam
 ics that reconfigured Cajun memory and identity. Focusing on St. Martinvil
 le and the Acadian Memorial\, he explores how authorities changed their mi
 nds about Cajuns and demonstrates how Cajuns’ historical memories took s
 hape. Part ethnography and part history\, David examines the racial aspect
 s of the Memorial’s creation in the wake of the Civil Rights movement an
 d the growth of a new Cajun history\, one through which individual Cajuns 
 rejected the label’s connotation of “white trash” and embraced belon
 ging within a storied white ethnic group. Based on decades of fieldwork an
 d deep engagement with public history practices\, David explores how histo
 rical memory and the historic sites that foster it are intertwined with th
 e politics of civic life.\n\nMarc David is an American anthropologist whos
 e research focuses on the civic politics of cultural policy in areas such 
 as language instruction and public history. He teaches at St. Olaf College
  in Northfield\, Minnesota. He is currently a Fulbright Research Scholar a
 t Cergy Paris Université’s Institute of Advanced Studies in the Parisia
 n suburb of Neuville-sur-Oise. With his wife Danyelle\, he has two childre
 n\, Jonah and Marjanne. He and Danyelle live in Saint Paul\, Minnesota\, w
 ith their dog Belle.
CATEGORIES:Buchpräsentation,Gespräch / Diskussion
LOCATION:The Munich Readery\, Augustenstrasse 104\, München\, Bayern\, 807
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