Memory Boxes: An Experimental Approach to Cultural Transfer in History, 1500-2000

This volume discusses a practical approach to cultural transfer and exchange through the concept of »memory box«. Ideas of displacement, transfer, and cultural memory are explored through case studies from Scotland to Italy and Germany and from Finland and France to the American colonies.The authors...

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Main Authors: Aali, Heta (Author), Perämäki, Anna-Leena (Author), Sarti, Cathleen (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:German
Published: transcript Verlag 2014
Series:Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften 22
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Online Access:ASH01
Summary:This volume discusses a practical approach to cultural transfer and exchange through the concept of »memory box«. Ideas of displacement, transfer, and cultural memory are explored through case studies from Scotland to Italy and Germany and from Finland and France to the American colonies.The authors develop an understanding of memory boxes as cultural constructions that are involved in the process of making and disputing memory - but which, simultaneously, are important agents for cultural transfer over space and time. This book emphasises »memory box« as an idea that allows us to study the cultural processes of transfer in conjunction with cultural memory
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:9783839427866

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