Memorials in the Aftermath of Armed Conflict From History to Heritage /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sørensen, Marie Louise Stig (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Viejo-Rose, Dacia (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Filippucci, Paola (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
• Subjects: Cultural heritage.; Ethnology.; Historiography.; Archaeology.; Cultural Heritage.; Cultural Anthropology.; Memory Studies.; Social Anthropology.

Through case studies from Europe and Russia, this volume analyses memorials as a means for the present to make claims on the past in the aftermath of armed conflict. The central contention is that memorials are not backward-looking, inert reminders of past events, but instead active triggers of pers...