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记忆活动人士对记忆地点所采用的方法通常涉及历史实践。本文介绍了对第二次世界大战期间大屠杀暴力发生地的历史实践的审查结果,以及对当地居民或其他对这些地点的过去感兴趣的团体认为没有得到适当纪念的受害者遗体的处理。所分析的做法是在波兰不同地点的实地研究过程中观察到的。这项研究的目的是描述这些实践,讨论它们的关键潜力,并指出它们作为与有争议的记忆地点相关的活动的独特特征。克劳德·兰兹曼(Claude Lanzmann)和莱尔·迪克(Lyle Dick)在辩论中引入的“非记忆地点”(non-site of memory)和“本土历史学家”(白话历史学家)概念,是完成这一任务的核心工具。因此,本文介绍了四位本土历史学家的案例,他们的实践是实验性地结合了专业历史学家工作的组成部分,以及受当地文化环境、个人经验和对社区生活的承诺所制约的工作方式。尽管学术历史学家有时认为白话历史没有什么价值,但研究表明,这些有问题的实践有可能产生新的、与社会相关的知识。在非记忆地点中,观察到白话历史实践的两个明显特征:这些未标记的埋葬地点吸引积极分子并促使他们进行历史实践;这些地方的本土历史学家经常从事非常规的,有时是实验性的活动。
Vernacular historical practices on Holocaust non-sites of memory in Poland
The approach employed by memory activists to sites of memory often involves historical practices. This paper presents the results of the examination of historical practices undertaken in locations of Holocaust violence during World War II and the disposal of victims’ remains that were not memorialised properly according to local residents or other groups with an interest in the sites’ past. The analysed practices were observed in the course of field research in various locations in Poland. The goal of the research was to describe these practices, discuss their critical potential, and indicate their distinct features as activities pertaining to contested sites of memory. A central tool for approaching this task is found in concepts of “non-site of memory” and “vernacular historian” as introduced to the debate by Claude Lanzmann and Lyle Dick. As a result, the article presents the cases of four vernacular historians whose practices are experimental combinations of the components of the work of professional historians and ways of working conditioned by local cultural environments, individual experience and commitment to communal life. Although vernacular history is sometimes considered of little value by academic historians, the research shows that the practices in question have the potential to produce new, socially relevant knowledge. Two distinct features of vernacular historical practices in non-sites of memory were observed: these unmarked sites of burial attract activists and prompt them to undertake historical practices; vernacular historians of these locations often undertake unconventional, sometimes experimental activities..