TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE POLISH-GERMAN-CZECH BORDER AREA IN 1938-1945 IN THE LOCAL COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND SOCIAL AWARENESS OF THE INHABITANTS OF BIELAWA AND THE OWL MOUNTAINS AREA [PDF]
Th e local community of Bielawa and the areas in the region of the Owl Mountains is an interesting object for studies of sites of memory represented in local consciousness.
Jeszke, Jaromir
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Book synopsis: Walsingham was medieval England's most important shrine to the Virgin Mary and a popular pilgrimage site. Following its modern revival it is also well known today. For nearly a thousand years, it has been the subject of, or referred to in,
Janes, Dominic
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Structure emerges faster during cultural transmission in children than in adults [PDF]
How does children’s limited processing capacity affect cultural transmission of complex information? We show that over the course of iterated reproduction of two-dimensional random dot patterns transmission accuracy increased to a similar extent in 5- to
Forsyth, Douglas +2 more
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A Cultural Memory of the Digital Age? [PDF]
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Photography and the construction of collective memory in Ghent, Belgium [PDF]
The paper investigates the shifting role of photography in the construction of collective cultural memory. It focuses on urban photography in Ghent, Belgium, at two particular periods of time.
Notteboom, Bruno, Wesener, Andreas
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The Constitution of the Cultural Memory
In the first half of the twentieth century, the sociologist Maurice Halbwachs and the literary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, published a pioneering work on the social dimension of memory as well as the first considerations about the ...
Ute Seydel
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New objects in old structures: The Iron Age hoard of the Palacio III megalithic funerary complex (Almadén de la Plata, Seville, Spain) [PDF]
Cultural contact, exchange and interaction feature high in the list of challenging topics of current research on European Prehistory. Not far off is the issue of the changing role of monuments in the making and maintaining of key cultural devices such as
Forteza González, M +6 more
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Memory-Place Networks: Revolutionary Heritage and Multi-cultural Belonging in Paris’s Belleville
Cultural geographers and memory studies scholars increasingly recognize that local places function as crucial nodes in transnational networks of meaning and identity. This paper develops the concept of “memory-place networks” to analyze the circulation,
John Strait
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The Distorted Lens: Immigrant Maladies and Mythical Norms in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory [PDF]
The immigrant experience is riddled with the complexities of uprooting, and the challenges of fitting into a new environment where the issue of difference plays an important role.
Valiela, Isabel
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De colonizador a víctima: la memoria cultural de la Guerra en El Pacífico a través del Monumento a la Línea Ferroviaria Burma-Siam Pakan Baroe [PDF]
In this article I will demonstrate how the Burma-Siam Pakan Baroe Railroad Monument embodies the development of the memory culture about the War in the Pacific in the Netherlands. I will explain why this was a contested war, and outline the ways in which
Breugelmans,Tamara
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