Set in Stone?: War Memorialisation As a Long-Term and Continuing Process in the UK, France and the USA - Couverture souple

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9781784912574: Set in Stone?: War Memorialisation As a Long-Term and Continuing Process in the UK, France and the USA
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ISBN 10 : 1784912573 ISBN 13 : 9781784912574
Editeur : Archaeopress Archaeology, 2016

Synopsis

This book provides a holistic and longitudinal study of war memorialisation in the UK, France and the USA from 1860 to 2014. Moving beyond the social-political circumstances of a memorial's construction, this study examines memorialisation as a continuing and transformative process. It explores the many ways in which war memorials are repeatedly appropriated, and re-appropriated, undergoing both physical and symbolic transformations. In order to study this full range of transformations, this book presents a unique analytical model that conceptualises objects of memory within three intersecting timescales: the chronological timescale, the conflict timescale and the object timescale. This new methodology facilitates an innovative, holistic approach of understanding engagement with a monument at any given moment in time, allowing meaningful comparisons to be made across both spatial and cultural boundaries. In doing so, it enables an approach to the cultural heritage conflict that moves beyond the socio-political to conceptualise war memorials within a shared cultural experience.

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Éditeur
Archaeopress Archaeology
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1784912573
ISBN 13 
9781784912574
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
198
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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