For many good reasons, after natural disasters it is common to work with ‘memory’ as part of a collective catharsis and a globalized humanitarian logic. Long‐term anthropological research on the aftermath of the 2001 earthquake in Gujarat, however, also demonstrates the significance of forgetting in local practice. Immediately after the disaster, people vowed to abandon the sites of their loss, leave the ruins as monuments, and rebuild anew on safer ground. In time, though, life returned to the ruins as the terrible proximity of death receded, as memories and new salience were shaped by acts of reconstruction. The article explores some of the political and social factors that make this form of forgetting possible – or even necessary. Evidence of earlier earthquakes in the same region indicates that such ‘forgetting’ has an established history. Together, ethnographic and archival materials combine to cast doubt over the emphasis on ‘remembering’ as the only ‘memory solution’ to suffering.

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没有记忆的健忘：印度古吉拉特邦地震后的重建，景观和日常政治

由于许多良好的原因，在自然灾害发生后，通常将“记忆”作为集体宣泄和全球化人道主义逻辑的一部分。然而，对古吉拉特邦2001年地震后果的长期人类学研究也证明了在当地实践中遗忘的重要性。灾难发生后，人们立即发誓要放弃他们的遗失地点，将废墟留作纪念物，并在更安全的地面上重新建造。但是随着时间的流逝，随着死亡和可怕的死亡的消退，生活又回到了废墟，重建的记忆塑造了人们的记忆和新的显着性。本文探讨了一些政治和社会因素，这些因素使这种形式的遗忘成为可能，甚至是必要的。同一地区较早发生地震的证据表明，这种“遗忘”具有悠久的历史。