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Monuments and Memory, Made and Unmade
Robert S. Nelson
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Description for Monuments and Memory, Made and Unmade
Paperback. Examining how monuments preserve memory, these essays demonstrate how phenomena as diverse as ancient drum towers in China and ritual whale killings in the Pacific Northwest serve to represent and negotiate time. Editor(s): Nelson, Robert S.; Olin, Margaret. Num Pages: 360 pages, 83 halftones. BIC Classification: AC; AM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 470.
How do some monuments become so socially powerful that people seek to destroy them? After ignoring monuments for years, why must we now commemorate public trauma, but not triumph, with a monument? To explore these and other questions, Robert S. Nelson and Margaret Olin assembled essays from leading scholars about how monuments have functioned throughout the world and how globalization has challenged Western notions of the "monument."
Examining how monuments preserve memory, these essays demonstrate how phenomena as diverse as ancient drum towers in China and ritual whale-killings in the Pacific Northwest serve to represent and negotiate time. Connecting ... Read more
How do some monuments become so socially powerful that people seek to destroy them? After ignoring monuments for years, why must we now commemorate public trauma, but not triumph, with a monument? To explore these and other questions, Robert S. Nelson and Margaret Olin assembled essays from leading scholars about how monuments have functioned throughout the world and how globalization has challenged Western notions of the "monument."
Examining how monuments preserve memory, these essays demonstrate how phenomena as diverse as ancient drum towers in China and ritual whale-killings in the Pacific Northwest serve to represent and negotiate time. Connecting ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Number of Pages
354
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226571584
SKU
V9780226571584
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