{"title":"Archival Negotiations: Samaritan Narratives and the Israel Folktale Archives","authors":"D. Stein","doi":"10.1353/ncu.2023.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ncu.2023.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In 1965, the Israel Folktale Archives (IFA) published a small anthology of Samaritan folktales. The article addresses a letter (found at the archive) concerning the publication as well as the poetic aspects of the anthology itself and explores the cultural-political negotiations they entail. I argue that the same-other relationship that characterizes Zionist Jews and Samaritans is staged and embodied in these archival negotiations, manifested in a variety of sources. I suggest that despite their unique characteristics, these archival dynamics may be an intensified example of, rather than an exception to IFA practices.","PeriodicalId":40483,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Culture","volume":"10 1","pages":"130 - 150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66360192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Lack of the Father: Intersections of Greek and Israeli Mythology in the Photographs of Adi Nes","authors":"Nissim Gal","doi":"10.1353/ncu.2023.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ncu.2023.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Perfectly staged photographs that dramatize mythological stories of the geographical and cultural periphery, to which Israeli society rarely directs its attention, constitute the essence of the “Boys” series (2000) by the photographer Adi Nes. This article examines how photography employs Greek mythology to stage emancipatory horizons for those oppressed due to their ethnic identity. By exposing the core of the Classical myths, the photographs reveal their continuing relevance, as well as their formative function as a source of meaning and interpretation, and as a medium for viewing and understanding modern and contemporary art.","PeriodicalId":40483,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Culture","volume":"10 1","pages":"26 - 60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42140845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Flood Stories: Agency of Water and Relationality of Narrative","authors":"Dace Bula","doi":"10.1353/ncu.2023.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ncu.2023.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Based on flood stories from the lower Daugava neighborhoods in Riga, this article seeks to explore the relational capacity of environmental narrative. Reverberating ideas of recent posthumanist and new materialist origin, it aims to bring to the fore personal oral accounts as a source for phenomenological inquiry into how people experience the agency of matter and how they narratively build relationships with their environment. I argue that personal experience stories have a unique epistemological value for the study of relational ontologies in that they provide access to the subjectivities of people’s varied engagement with the environment.","PeriodicalId":40483,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Culture","volume":"10 1","pages":"1 - 25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66360139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Between Interpretation and Leadership: The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in the Narrative of Tour Guides","authors":"M. Banaszkiewicz","doi":"10.1353/ncu.2022.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ncu.2022.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The article presents the problem of interpreting the heritage of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) by local guides. The text is the result of a research project aimed at investigating what influences the style of guided tours of the CEZ and, consequently, how its heritage is presented to tourists. The empirical material collected during interviews and participatory observation is analyzed in relation to the constructivist paradigm of heritage interpretation. The experience of visiting a heritage site offers visitors the opportunity to get personally involved and reflect on the past. At the same time, they require specific leadership and group management skills on the part of the interpreters. The greatest challenge that tour guides face in the Zone is to balance the safety of the visitors with their own individual interpretation of the heritage. Even more so, safety not only structures the tour's itinerary but is also a fundamental motive for universalizing the guides' narratives.","PeriodicalId":40483,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Culture","volume":"9 1","pages":"299 - 319"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41720139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moderating Museum Tours: From Lecture to Conversation","authors":"Christiane Schrübbers","doi":"10.1353/ncu.2022.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ncu.2022.0014","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This text is not so much a theoretical analysis as a practical study. It provides a form of guidance for a museum tour, which could be more of a conversation than a monologue delivered by one person being followed by a group of listeners. In what is called a moderated tour: the guide is less concerned with imparting specific facts and more interested in trying to help with the joint production of knowledge and is therefore open to contributions from the group being guided. Essential acts of speech here are: informing, redressing, ratifying, honoring, and evaluating. Therefore, the leader needs not only a good knowledge of the subject at hand but also the ability to acknowledge the interests and expertise of his/her listeners.","PeriodicalId":40483,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Culture","volume":"9 1","pages":"357 - 371"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42445604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Urban Walks: Footsteps, Narratives, and the Storied City","authors":"K. Dudek, S. Sikora","doi":"10.1353/ncu.2022.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ncu.2022.0017","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The article discusses the role of urban walks—tours with a guide organized for local communities—in the process of creating an embodied experience of the city that connects places, stories, the present, and the mediated, palimpsest-like past. It highlights critically two visions of the city (\"bottom-up\" and \"top-down\") and discusses the underlying assumptions from an anthropological perspective: Can cities only be read by residents, or can the act of walking be a meaningful cultural practice of writing and, first and foremost, performing the city? Our case study looks at Grochów, a district of Warsaw. We discuss urban walks organized by different local actors as an act of reading, writing, and re-writing the city and thus of recreating knowledge and memory of the \"Grochów\" kibbutz, which was active in this area between 1919 and 1942.","PeriodicalId":40483,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Culture","volume":"9 1","pages":"256 - 279"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43808873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Going Beyond Narration: Guided Tours at Concentration Camp Memorial Sites from a Linguistic Perspective","authors":"Moritz Lautenbach-von Ostrowski","doi":"10.1353/ncu.2022.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ncu.2022.0016","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this article, guided tours for young people at concentration camp memorial sites are looked at from the perspective of a linguistic theory of action. The article demonstrates that guides process the knowledge and ideas of their hearers, giving them \"access to memory\" that conveys experience-based knowledge. This knowledge has entered the sphere of cultural memory, thus re-entering communicative memory. Special attention is paid to narrating: What characterizes this linguistic form of action, and to what extent do guides also make use of others? The article shows that they go far beyond narrating, e.g., in order to pass down their testimonies.","PeriodicalId":40483,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Culture","volume":"9 1","pages":"234 - 255"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47542459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Truth about the Troubles: Negotiating Narratives of the Past in Guided Political Tours of West Belfast","authors":"Emily Mannheimer","doi":"10.1353/ncu.2022.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ncu.2022.0010","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Since the Troubles came to an end in 1998, guided tours of the infamous political murals and peace walls have thrived. This paper shows how narratives of the Troubles are constructed through the performative and discursive practices of tour guides. I identify how the ethical standards of giving a truthful and balanced tour are adhered to during the tours and self-enforced among the guides. I argue that tour guides are creating a new narrative of the Troubles based on the recognition of multiple experiences of the conflict and conclude that the burgeoning tourism industry provides an outlet for negotiating representations of the past.","PeriodicalId":40483,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Culture","volume":"9 1","pages":"280 - 298"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48297467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Jerusalem in Dialogue\": Personal Contributions versus Institutional Determinants in a Tandem Tour Guide Project","authors":"Andy Simanowitz","doi":"10.1353/ncu.2022.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ncu.2022.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:From December 2017 to May 2019, the Jewish Museum Berlin (JMB) put on a major temporary exhibition dedicated to the history, religious significance, politics, and contemporary daily life of the highly contested city of Jerusalem. The range of programs available to book included a tandem guided tour called \"Jerusalem in Dialogue.\" On each tour, two guides with their own personal relationship with Jerusalem spoke from different perspectives about the city and the exhibition. This format was born out of a training program for museum guides that the museum developed in collaboration with the German-Palestinian Mohamed Ibrahim and the Israeli Shemi Shabat and with accreditation from the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin (HTW). In this paper, I discuss the institutional determinants involved in the production of the tour and their impact on the narration provided by the guides. I aim to explore the relationship between the intended personal contributions to a public space made by the guides invited to participate and the determining structures that de-personalized their contributions. From this, I go on to draw conclusions about the suitability of the tour format in general, and the tandem tour format in particular, for achieving objectives of participation in a museum setting.","PeriodicalId":40483,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Culture","volume":"9 1","pages":"320 - 338"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45694872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}