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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 294 pages. 8.90x6.00x0.70 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: As New Text clean and tight. No Dust Jacket. no dust jacket; 9.20 X 6.30 X 0.90 inches; 294 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Demonstrates that cultural memory endures not in stone but in the living actions that continually reshape it.Locations of Cultural Memory offers a comprehensive and incisive exploration of how societies and cultures both remember and forget. Drawing on global case studies and weaving together history, aesthetics, cultural studies, and sociology, this book is unique in revealing with critical acuity how and why monuments and architecture, often assumed to preserve cultural memory, instead prove to be fragile due to power shifts and changing contexts. In contrast, ephemeral practicesembodied actions and relationshipscan transform personal memory into collective understanding, generating relational ties that extend beyond the individual and allowing personal memories and interpretations to coalesce into shared cultural memory. Bridging material and nonmaterial approaches, the volume's intention is to expand our idea of the monument and to reveal the magnitude of ethical concerns comprehended in representing and transmitting cultural memory. Demonstrates that cultural memory endures not in stone but in the living actions that continually reshape it. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Demonstrates that cultural memory endures not in stone but in the living actions that continually reshape it.Locations of Cultural Memory offers a comprehensive and incisive exploration of how societies and cultures both remember and forget. Drawing on global case studies and weaving together history, aesthetics, cultural studies, and sociology, this book is unique in revealing with critical acuity how and why monuments and architecture, often assumed to preserve cultural memory, instead prove to be fragile due to power shifts and changing contexts. In contrast, ephemeral practicesembodied actions and relationshipscan transform personal memory into collective understanding, generating relational ties that extend beyond the individual and allowing personal memories and interpretations to coalesce into shared cultural memory. Bridging material and nonmaterial approaches, the volume's intention is to expand our idea of the monument and to reveal the magnitude of ethical concerns comprehended in representing and transmitting cultural memory. Demonstrates that cultural memory endures not in stone but in the living actions that continually reshape it. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…