Cultural Memories The Geographical Point of View /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Meusburger, Peter (Editor), Heffernan, Michael (Editor), Wunder, Edgar (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Series: Knowledge and Space, Klaus Tschira Symposia, 4
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Culture > Study and teaching.; Cultural heritage.; History.; Human geography.; Social Sciences.; Human Geography.; History, general.; Regional and Cultural Studies.; Cultural Heritage.

The revival of interest in collective cultural memories since the 1980s has been a genuinely global phenomenon. Cultural memories can be defined as the social constructions of the past that allow individuals and groups to orient themselves in time and space. The investigation of cultural memories ha...