Review: Schlüsselbegriffe der Public History, by Christine Gundermann et al.

Book Review| August 01 2022 Review: Schlüsselbegriffe der Public History, by Christine Gundermann et al. Schlüsselbegriffe der Public History, Christine Gundermann et al. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021. 316 pp.; bibliography, index; paperback, 25 EURO; eBook, 20.99 EURO. Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska German Historical Institute Warsaw Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2022) 44 (3): 186–187. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2022.44.3.186 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska; Review: Schlüsselbegriffe der Public History, by Christine Gundermann et al.. The Public Historian 1 August 2022; 44 (3): 186–187. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2022.44.3.186 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe Public Historian Search Schlüsselbegriffe der Public History, literally “keywords of public history,” is a handbook written by a team of German historians, anthropologists, and education and media scholars. The key concepts under discussion are authenticity, emotions, memory, experience, heritage, historical culture, historical imagination, historical thinking, performativity, and reception—each discussed in about twenty pages. One could argue about the choice of the keywords, but the authors rightly claim that such lists are always controversial and never complete (16). Similarly disputable might be some decisions regarding the terminology (the explanation for writing about “emotions” instead of “affects” is not fully convincing, for instance), yet authors of handbooks usually face these kinds of unavoidable difficulties. Interestingly, the authors of Schlüsselbegriffe der Public History also offer an insight behind the scenes of their collaboration by informing the reader that they worked on the explanation of each of the keywords collectively so that there are no authors of... You do not currently have access to this content.