Open AccessBIOGRAFISKE SAMLINGER: Subjektivitet, identitet og materielle livshistorier
Author(s) -
Lene Otto
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
antropologi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2596-5425
pISSN - 0906-3021
DOI - 10.7146/ta.v0i43-44.107427
Subject(s) - casual , materiality (auditing) , perspective (graphical) , aesthetics , consciousness , identity (music) , relation (database) , reminiscence , sociology , art , history , psychology , visual arts , computer science , cognitive psychology , political science , law , database , neuroscience
The article is approaching the sensory and the
material, memory and private reminiscence,
objects and time from the perspective of
ethnology. It is an attempt to provide an
understanding of the relation between people
and objects in a biographical perspective. It
is argued that the act of keeping and saving is
a kind of technology of the self. Biographical
objects, because of their materiality and
sensory qualities constitute our picture of
our own past, stimulate remembering, store
information beyond individual experience,
and are instrumental to the formation of
consciousness and identity. Biographical
collections are the result of saving, not just
casual keeping of objects connected with
a person’s own life history. Thus, they are
material life stories.