Places of Pain and Shame : Dealing with 'Difficult Heritage'.
Places of Pain and Shame is a cross-cultural study of sites that represent painful and/or shameful episodes in a national or local community?s history, and the ways that government agencies, heritage professionals and the communities themselves seek to remember, commemorate and conserve these cases?...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2008.
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Colección: | Key Issues in Cultural Heritage, 3.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Places of Pain and Shame is a cross-cultural study of sites that represent painful and/or shameful episodes in a national or local community?s history, and the ways that government agencies, heritage professionals and the communities themselves seek to remember, commemorate and conserve these cases? or, conversely, choose to forget them. Such episodes and locations include: massacre and genocide sites, places related to prisoners of war, civil and political prisons, and places of?benevolent? internment such as leper colonies and lunatic asylums. These sites bring shame upon us now for the cr. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (305 pages). |
ISBN: | 9780203885031 0203885031 |