Memorial museums the global rush to commemorate atrocities.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford Berg 2007Edition: English edDescription: 226 p. illContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1-84520-488-3
  • 1-84520-489-1
  • 978-1-84520-488-4
  • 978-1-84520-489-1
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Contents:
Very different proposition : introducing the memorial museum -- The surviving object : presence and absence in memorial museums -- Photographic memory : images from calamitous histories -- Rocks and hard places : location and spatiality in memorial museums -- Diplomatic assignment : the political fortunes of memorial museums -- The memorial museum identity complex : victimhood, culpability, and responsibility -- Looming disaster : memorial museums and the shaping of historic consciousness -- Fighting the forgetful future.
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book Library of Ethnosociology & Ethnohistory 120.683 ASE Available 7729832-10

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Very different proposition : introducing the memorial museum -- The surviving object : presence and absence in memorial museums -- Photographic memory : images from calamitous histories -- Rocks and hard places : location and spatiality in memorial museums -- Diplomatic assignment : the political fortunes of memorial museums -- The memorial museum identity complex : victimhood, culpability, and responsibility -- Looming disaster : memorial museums and the shaping of historic consciousness -- Fighting the forgetful future.