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Mediation at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin

Mediation at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin

Description

Analyzing action at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, this first ethnography of the site offers a fresh approach to studying the memorial and memory work as potential civic engagement of visitors with themselves and others rather than with history itself.

Keywords

HistorySocial HistoryEuropeModernSocial ScienceSociologyMedia StudiesAnthropologyCultural & Social

2013Book

Author(s)Irit Dekel

PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK

ISBN9780230363304

LanguageEnglish

SpringerLink Book

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