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Through a global comparative approach, Amy Sodaro uses in-depth case studies of five exemplary memorial museums that commemorate a range of violent pasts and allow for a chronological and global examination of the form: the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC; the House of Terror in Budap...

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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-307672024-03-25T09:51:41Z Exhibiting Atrocity Sodaro, Amy Anthropology museums human rights memory cultural studies identity genocide violence Chile House of Terror Hungary Kigali Rwanda The Holocaust United States Holocaust Memorial Museum thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GL Library and information sciences / Museology::GLZ Museology and heritage studies Through a global comparative approach, Amy Sodaro uses in-depth case studies of five exemplary memorial museums that commemorate a range of violent pasts and allow for a chronological and global examination of the form: the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC; the House of Terror in Budapest; the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre in Rwanda; the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago, Chile; and the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York. Together, these case studies illustrate the historical emergence and global spread of the memorial museum and show how this new cultural form of commemoration is intended to be used in contemporary societies around the world emerging from widely divergent forms of political violence. 2018-01-24 23:55 2017-12-01 23:55:55 2020-02-25 03:00:27 2020-04-01T13:12:33Z 2020-04-01T13:12:33Z 2017-11-15 book 642735 OCN: 1028776469 9780813592176 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30767 eng application/pdf n/a 642735.pdf Rutgers University Press 10.2307/j.ctt1v2xskk 101362 10.2307/j.ctt1v2xskk 111d1c48-fc70-44ba-97fa-39be459ee343 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780813592176 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) New Brunswick 101362 KU Select 2017: Front list Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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