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Memory Boxes: An Experimental Approach to Cultural Transfer in History, 1500-2000
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Abstract 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 author... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
culture; transfer; collective memory; culture of remembrance; cultural history
Classification
History
Free Keywords
Cultural Transfer; History; Cultural Memory; Cultural Exchange; Memory Culture; European History; Cultural Studies
Document language
English
Publication Year
2014
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
242 p.
Series
Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften, 22
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/transcript.9783839427866
ISBN
978-3-8394-2786-6
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0