Terms that help us understand
A book presents with 16 terms that may help us understand the past, and therefore the present
Understanding how to read the past and capture its complexities and multidimensional nature – something that is useful to everyone, and that, further, enhances that good production culture that should become integral part of every community’s general culture. Knowing how to read the past, then, through simple tools accessible by all. This is the goal readers achieve when reading (and rereading) Lessico della storia culturale (A lexicon of cultural history), a recently published book curated by Alberto Maria Banti, Vinzia Fiorino and Carlotta Sorba.
The work focuses on 16 key terms. It’s a lexicon that, through each term, retraces how new questions arise, how new sources and investigation paths emerge, how perspectives able to offer a long-range view on several issues concerning current societies open up, from mass society standardisation processes to the dynamics ruling relationships and social exclusion.
The terms given to readers are: food, mass culture, print and writing cultures, visual cultures, emotions, family, insanity, gender, war, heritage, mass media, memory, nation, race, sexuality, and technoscience. All terms woven into history and our present, creating the fabric that we need to stitch together in order to understand how we form a community.
Thus, Banti, Fiorino and Sorba – aided by a number of important collaborators – build a kind of travel guide, a manual for the understanding of the past, which also help us comprehend the present and build a future with eyes wide open. A book that, like every good travel guide, should always be kept at hand – in order to read it and reread it, as said above.
Lessico della storia culturale (A lexicon of cultural history)
Alberto Maria Banti, Vinzia Fiorino and Carlotta Sorba (curated by)
Laterza, 2023
A book presents with 16 terms that may help us understand the past, and therefore the present
Understanding how to read the past and capture its complexities and multidimensional nature – something that is useful to everyone, and that, further, enhances that good production culture that should become integral part of every community’s general culture. Knowing how to read the past, then, through simple tools accessible by all. This is the goal readers achieve when reading (and rereading) Lessico della storia culturale (A lexicon of cultural history), a recently published book curated by Alberto Maria Banti, Vinzia Fiorino and Carlotta Sorba.
The work focuses on 16 key terms. It’s a lexicon that, through each term, retraces how new questions arise, how new sources and investigation paths emerge, how perspectives able to offer a long-range view on several issues concerning current societies open up, from mass society standardisation processes to the dynamics ruling relationships and social exclusion.
The terms given to readers are: food, mass culture, print and writing cultures, visual cultures, emotions, family, insanity, gender, war, heritage, mass media, memory, nation, race, sexuality, and technoscience. All terms woven into history and our present, creating the fabric that we need to stitch together in order to understand how we form a community.
Thus, Banti, Fiorino and Sorba – aided by a number of important collaborators – build a kind of travel guide, a manual for the understanding of the past, which also help us comprehend the present and build a future with eyes wide open. A book that, like every good travel guide, should always be kept at hand – in order to read it and reread it, as said above.
Lessico della storia culturale (A lexicon of cultural history)
Alberto Maria Banti, Vinzia Fiorino and Carlotta Sorba (curated by)
Laterza, 2023