Heritage and the existential need for history / / Maud Webster [[electronic resource]]
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| Autore: |
Webster Maud
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| Titolo: |
Heritage and the existential need for history / / Maud Webster [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | Gainesville : , : University Press of Florida, , 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (137 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 930.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Cultural property |
| Excavations (Archaeology) | |
| Note generali: | Also issued in print: 2021. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Prologue: Cy Twombly's Longing -- Introduction: About This Book -- On Being In Time: History, Death, Text -- Archaeological Cases: Blood from Stone -- Historical Cases: Contextualizing the Self -- By Way of a Conclusion: The Heart of the Matter |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In a sweeping survey of archaeological sites spanning thousands of years, this book asks fundamental questions about the place of cultural heritage in Western society. What is history? Why do we write about the events of yesterday and set up memorials for them? Why do we visit places where momentous things have happened? |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Heritage and the existential need for history |
| ISBN: | 0-8130-6703-0 |
| 0-8130-5777-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910828330703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Florida scholarship online.