Sharon Macdonald

Memorylands

Heritage and Identity in Europe Today

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Memorylands investigates the nature of heritage, memory and understandings of the past in Europe today. It addresses the ongoing apparent 'memory obsession' evident in a proliferation of museums, heritage sites and memorials, and arguments about the changing nature of identities - especially national, European and global. Its aim is to provide a new perspective on the place of the past, especially as manifest in museums, heritage and memorials, in different parts of Europe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 163mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 780g
• ISBN-13: 9780415453332
• ISBN-10: 041545333X
• Artikelnr.: 23818424

Autorenporträt

Sharon Macdonald is Anniversary Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of York, UK and Visiting Professor in the Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt University, Berlin. Her authored books include Difficult Heritage (Routledge, 2008) and Reimagining Culture, and, as editor, The Politics of Display (Routledge, 1997) and The Companion to Museum Studies (Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Prologue 1. The European Memory Complex: An Introduction 2.
Making Histories: Europe, Tradition and Other Present Pasts 3. Telling the
Past: The Multitemporal Challenge 4. Feeling the Past: Materiality,
Embodiment and Place 5. Selling the Past: Commodification, Authenticity and
Heritage 6. Musealization: Everyday Life, Temporality and Old Things 7.
Transcultural Heritage: Reconfiguring Identities and the Public Sphere 8.
Cosmopolitan Memory: Holocaust Commemoration and National Identity 9. The
Future of Memory - and Forgetting References