Visualising Place, Memory and the Imagined

ISBN-13: 9781138052277 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 210 str.

Sarah De Nardi

Opis

This book probes into how communities and social groups construct their understanding of the world through real and imagined experiences of a place.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Defining terms; 2. Deep mapping as memory work: theoretical and methodological implications of heritage mapping; 3. Imaginative engagement: the sleeping giant and the cursed hill; 4. A town, divided: mapping the tense imaginaries of the 1943–1945 Italian civil war; 5. Unlearning the body: liminal spaces, abject corpses and the historical imagination; 6. Stories from Beamish Museum’s ‘1950s Town’; 7. Experiencing the mapping method in the field: a dialogic interlude; 8. Moving forward: not a conclusion chapter; List of Figures; References; Appendix; Index

O autorze

Sarah De Nardi is a lecturer in heritage and tourism at Western Sydney University and the co-editor of the Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage. Her first monograph, The Poetics of Conflict Experience: Materiality and Embodiment in Second World War Italy (2016), revived landscape perception in Second World War Italy through hands-on oral histories with veterans.