Historic Preservation: Collective Memory and Historic Identity
Autor Diane Barthelen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 1996
Historic preservation is a cultural movement gaining momentum and adherents throughout Europe and the United States. How do we decide what to preserve and how to preserve? Who benefits from the efforts of preservationists, curators, developers, and other "symbolic bankers" to safeguard an increasing variety of structures for future generations? Diane Barthel raises these and other questions in this important new book. Taking a comparative approach, Barthel finds that preservation in Britain has largely been an elite enterprise aimed at preserving traditional values. In the United States, by contrast, the pattern is much more dynamic and democratic, though also more permeated by commercialism. Is preservation becoming another means of consuming history, like media representations or "historic" shopping outlets? Or does it have a special significance as a very tangible means of getting in touch with our collective and individual pasts? These and other issues--including war and remembrance, agrarian and industrial preservation, and religious preservation in a secular society--demonstrate the significance of what Barthel calls "the Preservation Project" and why we all have a stake in how our history is reconstructed and interpreted.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780813522937
ISBN-10: 0813522935
Pagini: 198
Ilustrații: 1
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:None
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
ISBN-10: 0813522935
Pagini: 198
Ilustrații: 1
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:None
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
Notă biografică
Diane Barthel received her Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University and is a professor of sociology at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. She is the author of Putting on Appearances: Gender and Advertising and Amana: From Pietist Sect to American Community.
Cuprins
1. The Preservation Project
2. Symbolic Bankers and Cultural Capital
3. Back to Utopia
4. The Interpretation of Industrial Society
5. War and Remembrance
6. Religious Preservation in Secular Society
7. Consuming History
8. We Are the World
9. Conclusion: Getting in Touch with History
2. Symbolic Bankers and Cultural Capital
3. Back to Utopia
4. The Interpretation of Industrial Society
5. War and Remembrance
6. Religious Preservation in Secular Society
7. Consuming History
8. We Are the World
9. Conclusion: Getting in Touch with History
Descriere
This text focuses on historic preservation, and contrasts Europe - which it argues is an elitist enterprise aimed at preserving values - and the USA, where the patterns are more democratic and dynamic. It asks whether preservation is just a media representation and a means of consuming history.