vi, 100 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. / Ancient Greek acts of commemoration aimed to preserve the memory of an event or an individual. By examining the commemoration of athletic victory, military success, and death in battle, with reliance upon theories ofmemory, this study examines how each form of commemoration offered immortality. A vital aspect was the way they joined word and material reminder. Athletes could maintain their glory by erecting statues or commissioning epinician odes, which often relied on image and words. The physical and ideological reconfiguration of the plain of Marathon linked the battle's memory to a location. Pericles' oration offered eternal praise to both the war dead and Athens, an Athens crafted as a monument by Pericles to remain for future generations. In different and complimentary ways, all of these forms of commemoration preserved the glory of a deed or an individual for posterity. / Committee in Charge: Dr. Mary Jaeger, Chair; Dr. Christopher Eckerman

Between Waves is a lyrical memoir that explores the changes I faced in transitioning into American life after growing up in rural England. The book is written in two parts; the first is set mostly in England, the second takes place primarily in Florida. I interweave a present, reflective voice through both parts to challenge the ideas of love, loss, and learning to say goodbye as well as attempting to illustrate how perceptions of each can change over time. The lyrical structure of the memoir allows for swift transition between memories, themes, and locations without limitations of a chronological or linear storyline. The stories detailed throughout the memoir are meditative, subjective perceptions that intend to determine what it means to be a child, a parent, a transplant, and what it means to find home within it all. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2017. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Memory is the basis of all complex social relationships. In the brain, the hippocampus is a structure that is critical for remembering interactions with, and information about, other individuals; in other words, it is critical for social recognition memory. Social memory consists of two related processes: the general sense of whether and to what extent one has previously encountered another individual (familiarity) and the specific recall of details or episodes that involve another individual (recollection). It remains controversial whether the hippocampus contributes to one or to both of these processes. Teasing out the role of the hippocampus in the different components of memory is challenging because it is not a homogenous structure but rather consists of many subpopulations of neurons that are specifically organized along its various axes. Broadly, the hippocampus is divided into the Cornu Ammonis subfields (CA1, CA2, and CA3), as well as the dentate gyrus. In addition to these subfields, the hippocampus demonstrates remarkable variation in neural and functional properties along the dorsoventral axis. The past decade has revealed that the dorsal CA2 (dCA2) subfield is particularly important for social recognition memory. Although dCA2 has been shown to respond to and represent social information, it remains unclear as to whether it contributes to both familiarity and recollection processing. In my thesis, I address the nature of CA2 social coding using large-scale optical imaging of calcium activity in hundreds to thousands of pyramidal neurons selectively targeted within dCA2. Through intensive decoding and cross-condition analysis, my studies reveal that dCA2 contributes to the classification of novel from familiar individuals in a way that is separate from their identity, thus demonstrating familiarity processing in this region. In addition, I show that dCA2 neural activity can discern the identities of individuals with the same degree or novelty or familiarity, necessary to support recollection. Extended familiarization decreases the extent that neural activity in dCA2 generalizes across changes in context, enhancing social-spatial discrimination at the expense of generalization. While the role of dCA2 in social memory is clear, next to nothing is known about the ventral portion of this structure (vCA2); indeed, its very existence is controversial. In my efforts to understand the role of CA2 in familiarity and recollection processing, I investigated the structure and function of CA2 in the ventral hippocampus, a region generally implicated in regulating emotion, stress, and affect. My results indicate that vCA2 is a well-defined region with characteristic morphological, electrophysiological, and molecular properties in common with dCA2. However, vCA2 also shows differences in expression of certain proteins characteristic of dCA2. Notably, and dissimilar to its dorsal counterpart, this region is defined by at least two distinct populations of neurons defined by differences in molecular expression. In contrast to the importance of dCA2 in social memory, inhibition of one of the vCA2 populations did not alter social recognition memory. Although the functional role of these populations remains elusive, I found that vCA2 activity, as measured by c-Fos activation, is significantly and selectively modulated following acute social defeat, thus providing a potential novel role for CA2 in responses to social stress.

Li Yee Ching, Magdalene. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 154-160). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Acknowledgments --- p.i / Abstract --- p.ii / Chapter Chapter 1: --- Introduction / Overview --- p.1 / Research Objective --- p.5 / Conceptualization --- p.7 / Organization of the paper --- p.11 / Chapter Chapter 2: --- Communication and Collective Memory / Overview --- p.13 / Collective Memory and Social Changes --- p.20 / Collective Memory and Political Changes --- p.22 / Mass Media and Collective Memory --- p.23 / Chapter Chapter 3: --- Research Design / Discourse Analysis of the Representation of June4 --- p.31 / Data Analysis --- p.34 / Chapter Chapter 4: --- Initial Frames of Remembrance of the Tiananmen Incident in1989 / The Structure of the Available Past --- p.38 / The 1989 Pro-Democracy Movement in Beijing --- p.40 / Framing the June 4 Incident in the Hong Kong Context --- p.45 / Contextualizing the 1989 Pro-democracy Movement --- p.56 / June 4 and the Hong Kong Media --- p.61 / Chapter Chapter 5: --- The First Anniversary of the Crackdown in1990 / Commemoration and Collective Memory --- p.66 / The Commemoration Project of June4 --- p.67 / The Media as a Field of Memory --- p.68 / Cultivating Collective Memory --- p.70 / Interpreting the Changes in Memory --- p.77 / Chapter Chapter 6: --- The 5th Anniversary of June 4 in1994 / The Script of the June 4 Anniversary --- p.80 / The Commemoration Project in1994 --- p.81 / Shifting Media Representations of Key Players --- p.83 / Subdued Commemoration of the Media --- p.91 / The Context of Changes in the June 4 Memory --- p.93 / The Role of the Media --- p.96 / Chapter Chapter 7: --- The June 4 Incident Commemoration on the Eve of the1997 Handover / Contradictions in the Memory of June4 --- p.101 / Media's Coverage and the June 4 Commemoration --- p.103 / Representation of Major Actors in1997 --- p.104 / Media's Interpretation of the Meaning of June4 --- p.113 / Interpreting the Changes --- p.115 / Chapter Chapter 8: --- Commemorating the June 4 Incident in a Chinese City The 10th Anniversary of June4 / Ambiguous Definition of the June 4 Incident --- p.120 / The Media and the Mnemonic Dispute --- p.124 / The Wider Context of the 10th Anniversary --- p.128 / Remembering to Forget: Interpreting the Changes in1999 --- p.131 / Chapter Chapter 9: --- Conclusions: The People Will Not Forget --- p.136 / Bibliography --- p.154 / Appendix 1: Survey on People's Opinion on the June Fourth Incident --- p.161 / Appendix 2: Protocol for Textual Analysis --- p.163 / Appendix 3: Interview Protocol --- p.164 / Appendix 4:Interviewee Profile --- p.165

Hong Ka Yu Garret. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2004-2005, design report."

We each experience the world through the prism of our upbringing, our traditions and the familiar sights and sounds embedded deep within our soul. Only Sound Remains is an installation in which I explore and share those experiences through objects, sounds and video. Ceramic vessels inspired by the traditions of my ancestors hide and shape sounds that narrate simple and complex experiences, which are the stories of my life. The sounds relate to the world that I came from and that still can be heard now. The sounds are not clear until one gets close to the vessels and lifts the lid-- a bazaar, praying, marching, an explosion, a woman telling a story, traditional Iranian music. The installation is a metaphor for the way in which we experience the world. The vessels represent a selection of personal and cultural experiences through sounds that may or may not be fully understood. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2014.. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

This dissertation documents the memories of Medellin's city dwellers and explores how people in violent urban contexts make sense of violence and deal with its presence in their lives. This study is defined as an anthropology of remembering; it is an ethnographic observation of the practices of remembering and forgetting and how these practices shape and are shaped by the lived experience of violence. The dissertation is built on extensive fieldwork in the Colombian city of Medellin with a cross section of women, youth and community leaders. The thesis argues that when the uncertainty and paradox created by widespread forms of violence threaten to destroy the social and material worlds of Colombian city dwellers, memory becomes a strategic tool for human and cultural survival. The creation of an oral history of death and the dead, the presence of a local social knowledge that assists city dwellers in their safe circulation in and through the city, and the maintenance of practices of place making are examples of how city dwellers deal with the devastating effects of violence in their lives. The thesis develops a place-based exploration of memory and violence and approaches place as a physical, sensory, social and imaginative experience that maintains a sense of continuity between the past and the every day life of Medellin's city dwellers. The two connecting concepts that ground the analysis of the relationship between people, memory and violence are those of "sense of place" and "communities of memory." The dimensions of human agency, cultural survival and human suffering are central to the exploration of memory, place and violence developed in this thesis. From this perspective, the thesis takes to task anthropological works on violence that emphasize the routinization of terror and fear for those who live amidst widespread violence. The thesis discusses the multiple ways in which memory is disputed in Colombia and the risks posed by a local reading of violence as intrinsic to the history of the country. It concludes that when individuals are faced with realities such as life and death, the familiar faces of the actors of violence and the weakening of the social and ethical fabric of their communities, they do not stand in definite positions and cannot be defined in simple terms such as victims and perpetrators. Thus, it can be recognized that although violence plays a central role in the Medellin city dwellers processes of identity formation, it does not exhaust these possibilities.

This thesis examines the ways in which Cree women of Waskaganish, James Bay use and understand the concept of tradition in narratives about their lives and changes in their community. The fieldnotes of anthropologist Regina Flannery, completed in the 1930's, serve to orient this research, and provide a starting point for discussion. / As northern communities continue to adapt in the face of social and economic changes, cultural categories such as tradition have concurrently undergone reevaluation. It is argued here that the meanings of tradition have become more complex as Cree women adjust to their changing environment. / It is demonstrated that tradition is used as a narrative tool in descriptions of the past, and a means by which women can discuss change and the future of their community. In addition, tradition currently occupies a significant symbolic space in women's individual cultural identities, and is incorporated in daily life in various ways. Furthermore, tradition has also become an important component of Cree political discourse. Finally, it is apparent that tradition remains a contested category among women themselves, and dissent exists as to the future transmission of traditional practices, language and values. / From this analysis, tradition emerges as a nuanced term that has a number of conceptual modalities. It is suggested that a more comprehensive grasp of complex concepts such as tradition is made possible through the prioritization of personal narratives, and the exploration of the ways in which individuals utilize, comprehend and expand on cultural categories.

In response to the anthropological literature on old age and ageing that remains largely isolated from more contemporary anthropological theory, this thesis re-focuses anthropological attention on the experiences of ageing. Towards this end, I examine the way macro- (history, politics, economics) and micro-level processes (social relations, intergenerational relations, local contexts, individual histories) intersect to frame the cultural construction of old age, personal experiences of "being old", and the self. A central point of intersection between these processes comes from the recent history of social transformation in my fieldsite, Dodworth, a former coal-mining village. Since the late 1980s, this is an area that has been grappling with the rupturing effects of the closure of the coal-mining industry. Attending to these conditions and how they inform the everyday reality and the experiences of ageing and of the self are critical concerns in this thesis. My approach to the ageing self is one that privileges narrativity and temporality as key constitutive elements and which considers the potentially different position of older people in relation to time and to the self. Growing older is a complicated mixture of bodily and social change, and negotiating these shifts has crucial implications for one's sense of self and subjectivity. While "old age" is a category which is readily used in daily discourse and living, what old age is and who is old nevertheless resists anchoring. What old age, being old and ageing meant to my research participants are key questions in order to understand the experience of growing older in Dodworth. Throughout the thesis, I focus on the dialectics of interpersonal interactions in order to speak meaningfully about how the experience of old age is organised and constructed. Emerging in tandem with these issues is another major topic of this thesis: social memory. Talk in Dodworth about places, absences, and relations continually brought the past and present together and was involved in how a sense of self is created. What emerged was a three-dimensionality of memory, an individual and collective way of placing oneself and others in relation to spatial aspects of the villagescape.

This dissertation documents the memories of Medellin's city dwellers and explores how people in violent urban contexts make sense of violence and deal with its presence in their lives. This study is defined as an anthropology of remembering; it is an ethnographic observation of the practices of remembering and forgetting and how these practices shape and are shaped by the lived experience of violence. The dissertation is built on extensive fieldwork in the Colombian city of Medellin with a cross section of women, youth and community leaders. The thesis argues that when the uncertainty and paradox created by widespread forms of violence threaten to destroy the social and material worlds of Colombian city dwellers, memory becomes a strategic tool for human and cultural survival. The creation of an oral history of death and the dead, the presence of a local social knowledge that assists city dwellers in their safe circulation in and through the city, and the maintenance of practices of place making are examples of how city dwellers deal with the devastating effects of violence in their lives. The thesis develops a place-based exploration of memory and violence and approaches place as a physical, sensory, social and imaginative experience that maintains a sense of continuity between the past and the every day life of Medellin's city dwellers. The two connecting concepts that ground the analysis of the relationship between people, memory and violence are those of "sense of place" and "communities of memory." The dimensions of human agency, cultural survival and human suffering are central to the exploration of memory, place and violence developed in this thesis. From this perspective, the thesis takes to task anthropological works on violence that emphasize the routinization of terror and fear for those who live amidst widespread violence. The thesis discusses the multiple ways in which memory is disputed in Colombia and the risks posed by a local reading of violence as intrinsic to the history of the country. It concludes that when individuals are faced with realities such as life and death, the familiar faces of the actors of violence and the weakening of the social and ethical fabric of their communities, they do not stand in definite positions and cannot be defined in simple terms such as victims and perpetrators. Thus, it can be recognized that although violence plays a central role in the Medellin city dwellers processes of identity formation, it does not exhaust these possibilities. / Arts, Faculty of / Anthropology, Department of / Graduate