Preliminaries -- Things Matter -- Public Grief -- Mourning Codes -- Death Matters -- Memory and Public Feeling -- Conclusion -- Notes
Summary
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
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Notes
"This text is a revised version of a lecture given at Meertens Instituut on March 30, 2006"--Page 43
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 43-52)
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