| Abstrakt: |
The article discusses why metaphors are considered as the key to inter-subjectivity and presents historical-anthropological reflections on the shared dimension of memory making. It discusses the anthropological meaning of metaphors and argues that metaphors, through which people understand one reality in terms of another one, are the key to understand the collective underpinnings of memory. It is suggested that historians should take a close look at metaphors if they want to unravel the inter-subjective layers of both past and present meaning making. It states that Metaphors are being enacted, experienced, translated and shared within specific, such as religious, medical or psychological contexts of practices and discourses. |
