ISBN10: 9048189446, ISBN13: 9789048189441, [publisher: Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London, New York: Springer] Hardcover VIII, 383 p.: Ill. An excellent copy. - Contents Part I Theoretical Considerations Cultural Memories: An Introduction Peter Meusburger, Michael Heffernan, and Edgar Wunder Communicative and Cultural Memory Jan Assmann Memory and Space in the Work of Maurice Halbwachs David Middleton and Steven D. Brown Knowledge, Cultural Memory, and Politics Peter Meusburger Part II Case Studies The Riitli in Switzerland: Minor MemoryMajor Ambitions Georg Kreis Sharing Space? Geography and Politics in Post-conflict Northern Ireland Brian Graham MemoryRecollectionCultureIdentitySpace: Social Context, Identity Formation, and Self-construction of the Cale (Gitanos) in Spain Christina West Part III World War II in European Cultural Memories Seven Circles of European Memory Claus Leggewie Halecki Revisited: Europe's Conflicting Cultures of Remembrance . Stefan Troebst Remembering for Whom? Concepts for Memorials in Western Europe Rainer Eckert Family Memories of World War II and the Holocaust in Europe, or Is There a European Memory? Harald Welzer AnnihilatingPreservingRemembering: The "Aryanization" of Jewish History and Memory During the Holocaust Dirk Rupnow History/Archive/Memory: A Historical Geography of the US Naval Memorial in Brest, France Michael Heffernan Places and Spaces: The Remembrance of D-Day 1944 in Normandy Sandra Petermann "Doors into ...
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ISBN10: 9048189446, ISBN13: 9789048189441, [publisher: Springer Netherlands] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Cultural memories are social constructions of the past which allow human beings both personally and collectively to orient themselves in time and space. This book focusses on the role of spatiality and places for cultural memories. It offers new insights to the formation and development of cultural memories in ancient and modern societies. The book concentrates on theoretical considerations how cultural memories should be conceptualised, includes three case studies to apply these concepts to three very different contexts, focuses on the question of an emerging, distinct European cultural memory, its variances and especially the role of World War II for its origination, studies cultural memories in post-colonial contexts outside Europe, and offers insides on cultural memories in tribal, nomadic societies before or on the edge of Neolithic revolution. Cultural memories are social constructions of the past which allow humans personally and collectively to orient themselves in time and space. In this book, scholars in anthropology, egyptology, geography, history, political science and psychology offer new insights to the formation and development of cultural memories in ancient and modern societies, focusing on the role of spatiality and places. Part I covers theoretical considerations of how cultural memories should be conceptualised ...
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Dordrecht Springer 2011 2011 ed. Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 384 p. Knowledge and Space, 4.

ISBN10: 9048189446, ISBN13: 9789048189441, [publisher: Springer] Hardcover
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Dordrecht Springer 2011 2011 ed. Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 384 p. Knowledge and Space, 4.

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