This paper shows the use of oral history for contributing to larger debates on the making of memory, the particular role that anthropologists have in the social construction of memory, and ultimately to identity construction projects in the field sites we work. Combined with anthropological fieldwork, oral history allows us to reveal new facets and principles of memory negotiation. Biographical narratives from a multiethnic fishing village established by Stalin’s relocation policy help us develop a fine- grained understanding of awareness between the individual and the public sphere of memory that Hamilton and Shopes (2009) identified as important. Taking the debate on collective memory one step further, we suggest that there is more than a duality between the personal and the general sphere. We conclude that collective memory in its multivocal character crucially shapes human sense of belonging to groups, drawing meaning from the diverse interpretation of their past.

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西伯利亚东部的记忆民族志：北极海岸的生活史很重要吗？

本文展示了口述历史的使用，从而促进了关于记忆形成的更多辩论，人类学家在记忆的社会建构中所发挥的特殊作用，并最终促进了我们工作现场的身份建构项目。结合人类学田野调查，口述历史使我们能够揭示记忆协商的新方面和原理。斯大林的迁徙政策建立了一个多民族渔村的传记叙事，这有助于我们对汉密尔顿和Shopes（2009）认为重要的个人和公共记忆领域之间的意识有了更深入的了解。我们将关于集体记忆的辩论再进一步一步，我们认为，个人和一般领域之间不仅存在二重性。