Places of Pain and Shame : Dealing with 'Difficult Heritage'.

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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?...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Logan, William
Other Authors: Reeves, Keir
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2008.
Series:Key Issues in Cultural Heritage, 3.
Subjects:
Collective memory > Cross-cultural studies.
Cultural property > Cross-cultural studies.
Shame > Cross-cultural studies.
Cultural property.
Mémoire collective > Études transculturelles.
Honte > Études transculturelles.
Collective memory
Cultural property
Shame
Cross-cultural studies
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Remembering places of pain and shame; Part I Massacre and genocide sites; Chapter 1 Let the dead be remembered: Interpretation of the Nanjing Massacre Memorial; Chapter 2 The Hiroshima 'Peace Memorial': Transforming legacy, memories and landscapes; Chapter 3 Auschwitz-Birkenau: The challenges of heritage management following the Cold War; Chapter 4 'Dig a hole and bury the past in it': Reconciliation and the heritage of genocide in Cambodia.
  • Chapter 5 The Myall Creek Memorial: History, identity and reconciliationPart II Wartime internment sites; Chapter 6 Cowra Japanese War Cemetery; Chapter 7 A cave in Taiwan: Comfort women's memories and the local identity; Chapter 8 Postcolonial shame: Heritage and the forgotten pain of civilian women internees in Java; Chapter 9 Difficult memories: The independence struggle as cultural heritage in East Timor; Part III Civil and political prisons; Chapter 10: Port ar.

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