Difficult Heritage - Negotiating the Nazi Past in Nuremberg and Beyond

Zusatztext "Sharon Macdonald deftly handles this complex terrain! offering a sophisticated theoretical analysis based on a well-grounded ethnographic study. In other words! this book is an exceptional piece of anthropology."-Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh!Denver Museum of Nature and Science! Current Anthropology! Volume 51! Number 3! June 2010 Informationen zum Autor Sharon Macdonald Klappentext First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung How does a city and a nation deal with a legacy of perpetrating atrocity? How are contemporary identities negotiated and shaped in the face of concrete reminders of a past that most wish they did not have? This book focuses on the case of Nuremberg - a city whose name is linked with Nazism - to explore these questions and their implications. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Negotiating Difficult Heritage: Introduction 2. Building Heritage: Words in Stone? 3. Demolition, Cleansing and Moving On 4. Preservation, Profanation and Image-Management 5. Accompanied Witnessing: Education, Art and Alibis 6. Cosmopolitan Memory in the City of Human Rights 7. Negotiating on the Ground(s): Guided Tours of Nazi Heritage 8. Visting Difficult Heritage 9. Unsettling Difficult Heritage

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• Authors: Sharon Macdonald, Sharon (University of Sheffield Macdonald, Sharon (University of York Macdonald, Macdonald Sharon
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.11.2008
• EAN: 9780415419918
• ISBN: 978-0-415-41991-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides, Society & culture: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Museum Administration & Museology, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Society and culture: general, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, Travel guides: museums, historic sites, galleries etc, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust