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From the commemoration of September 11 to the Holocaust memorial in Berlin to the 2004 unveiling of the National World War II Memorial in Washington D.C., recent decades have witnessed a substantial increase in the number of new public memorials built in both Europe and the United States. This volum...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Doss, Erika, 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2008.
Colección:Meertens ethnology cahier ; 3.
Temas:
Mourning customs.
Shrines.
Memorials.
Memorial rites and ceremonies.
Grief > Social aspects.
Deuil > Coutumes.
Sanctuaires.
Rites et cérémonies commémoratifs.
Chagrin > Aspect social.
shrines (structures)
Humanities.
History.
Society and social sciences.
Society and culture: general.
Sociology and anthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Death & Dying.
Grief > Social aspects
Memorial rites and ceremonies
Memorials
Mourning customs
Shrines
Das Ephemere
Denkmal
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Multi-User.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:From the commemoration of September 11 to the Holocaust memorial in Berlin to the 2004 unveiling of the National World War II Memorial in Washington D.C., recent decades have witnessed a substantial increase in the number of new public memorials built in both Europe and the United States. This volume considers the contemporary explosion of public commemoration in terms of changed cultural and social practices of mourning, memory, and public feeling.
Notas:"This text is a revised version of a lecture given at Meertens Instituut on March 30, 2006"--Page 43
Descripción Física:1 online resource (52 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 43-52).
ISBN:9789048503407
904850340X
1281988421
9781281988423
9786611988425
6611988424
ISSN:1872-0986 ;

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