Abstract
The home-"place of memory" is the locus of an authentic space for private handling of the past from the private perspective of everyday life. This type of “memory place” is the result of semantic construction and is characterized by autonomy and independence from specialized memory institutions. A microhistorical approach to the study of the cultural history of a particular House, methods of observation and in-depth interviews made it possible to determine the constitutive characteristics of the House-"place of memory": a personalized history of home and family; private handling of the past; correlation of the sign-symbolic parameters of the House with the topography of everyday practices, locus of space and landscape; practices of object preservation, tactility of semiophores and relics, symbolic representation of the image of a house in intergenerational communication. Home in the cultural memory of a family and clan is an expanding space. It consists of circles of broad contexts associated with traces of cultural traumas of the country’s event history, family practices of landscape commemoration, construction of photo text, etc. The concept of the House as a "place of memory" traces a combination of two types of cultural memory – "canon" and "archive". The results of the study expand the understanding of the concept of "place of memory" (P. Nora), contain the potential for developing problems and studying the experience of creating memorial places such as house museums, estate reserves, and apartment museums.
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