Exhibiting Atrocity : Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence
Sodaro, Amy
Exhibiting Atrocity : Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence - New Brunswick Rutgers University Press 20171115
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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 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.
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English
j.ctt1v2xskk 9780813592176
10.2307/j.ctt1v2xskk doi
Museology & heritage studies
Anthropology museums human rights memory cultural studies identity genocide violence Chile House of Terror Hungary Kigali Rwanda The Holocaust United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Exhibiting Atrocity : Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence - New Brunswick Rutgers University Press 20171115
Open Access
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.
Creative Commons
English
j.ctt1v2xskk 9780813592176
10.2307/j.ctt1v2xskk doi
Museology & heritage studies
Anthropology museums human rights memory cultural studies identity genocide violence Chile House of Terror Hungary Kigali Rwanda The Holocaust United States Holocaust Memorial Museum