Cultural Memories: The Geographical Point of View.

VIII, 383 p.: Ill. An excellent copy. - Contents Part I Theoretical Considerations Cultural Memories: An Introduction Peter Meusburger, Michael Heffernan, and Edgar Wunder Communicative and Cultural Memory Jan Assmann Memory and Space in the Work of Maurice Halbwachs David Middleton and Steven D. Brown Knowledge, Cultural Memory, and Politics Peter Meusburger Part II Case Studies The Riitli in Switzerland: Minor Memory—Major Ambitions Georg Kreis Sharing Space? Geography and Politics in Post-conflict Northern Ireland Brian Graham Memory—Recollection—Culture—Identity—Space: Social Context, Identity Formation, and Self-construction of the Cale (Gitanos) in Spain Christina West Part III World War II in European Cultural Memories Seven Circles of European Memory Claus Leggewie Halecki Revisited: Europe’s Conflicting Cultures of Remembrance . Stefan Troebst Remembering for Whom? Concepts for Memorials in Western Europe Rainer Eckert Family Memories of World War II and the Holocaust in Europe, or Is There a European Memory? Harald Welzer Annihilating—Preserving—Remembering: The “Aryanization” of Jewish History and Memory During the Holocaust Dirk Rupnow History/Archive/Memory: A Historical Geography of the US Naval Memorial in Brest, France Michael Heffernan Places and Spaces: The Remembrance of D-Day 1944 in Normandy Sandra Petermann “Doors into Nowhere”: Dead Cities and the Natural History of Destruction Derek Gregory Part IV Postcolonial Cultural Memories Violent Memories: South Asian Spaces of Postcolonial Anamnesis Stephen Legg Spacing Forgetting: The Birth of the Museum at Fort Jesus, Mombasa, and the Legacies of the Colonization of Memory in Kenya Denis Linehan and Joao Sarmento Part V Pre-modern Cultural Memories Landscape, Transformations, and Immutability in an Aboriginal Australian Culture Robert Tonkinson Person, Space, and Memory: Why Anthropology Needs Cognitive Science and Human Geography Jürg Wassmann Abstract of the Contributions The Klaus Tschira Foundation Index. ISBN 9789048189441