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Loading... We Are What We Remember: The American Past Through Commemorationby Jeffrey Lee Meriwether
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Commemorative practices are revised and rebuilt based on the spirit of the time in which they are re/created. Historians sometimes imagine that commemoration captures history, but actually commemoration creates new narratives about history that allow people to interact with the past in a way that they find meaningful. As our social values change (race, gender, religion, sexuality, class), our commemorations do, too. We Are What We Remember: The American Past Through Commemoration, analyzes cu... No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)302.0971Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Social Interaction Biography and HistoryLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |