Memory, monuments and museums : the past in the present / edited by Marilyn Lake
- Bib ID:
- 3572860
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- Book
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- Description:
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- Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press in association with the Australian Academy of the Humanities, 2006
- ix, 294 p. : ill., port., facsim. ; 20 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780522852509
- 0522852505
- Summary:
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This collection by Australia's leading writers, scholars and activists discuss the ways in which we record, preserve and sometimes re-create our histories, and how the power of memory and the past shapes the present, and our identity. The essays are taken from the Australian Academy of the Humanities 2004 Symposium.
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- Machine derived contents note: Part I Memory as Muse
- I A History of Memory
- Peter Conrad I5
- 2 Remembering and Forgetting
- Nicholas Shakespeare 33
- Part II Memories of Manhood
- 3 Monuments of Manhood and Colonial
- Dependence:The Cult of Anzac as Compensation
- Marilyn Lake 43
- 4 Teddy Roosevelt's Trophy: History and Nostalgia
- lain McCalman 58
- Part III Cultural Institutions as Custodians of
- Memory and Tradition
- 5 The Heritage of'Old England'
- Michael Bennett 79
- 6 What Should a National Museum Do?
- Learning from the World
- Graeme Davison 91
- 7 Reflections of a National Museum Director
- Dawn Casey I 10
- 8 The Archive underThreat
- John Frow 124
- 9 The Art Museum as Monument:
- Cultural Change Contained
- len Ang 138
- Part IV Transforming Space into Place: Inscribing
- Memory in Landscape
- 10 Landscapes Transformed
- Bill Gammage 153
- II 'Planting hopes with potatoes': Gardens,
- Memory and Place Making
- Katie Holmes I66
- I2 Remembering the Self in the Colonial Garden:
- Gardens and Subjectivity
- Susan K. Martin I82
- 13 Tasmanian Landscapes in Painting, Poetry and Print
- Roslynn Haynes 194
- Part V Memorialising Tasmania: Shame, Sorrow and
- Self-Respect
- 14 Dispossession
- Jim Everett 215
- 15 Commemoration: Tasmanian Slices
- Michael Roe 228
- 16 Tasmania's Bicentenary Celebrations:
- What's in a Date?
- Henry Reynolds 243.
- Notes:
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- "Academy editor: Bruce Bennett" --Verso t.p.
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references.
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- Publication date:
- 2006
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