Pomniki w mieście. Pogranicza pamięci i historii

• Authors: Renata Hołda

Title variants

EN

Monuments in a town. Borderlines of memory and histor

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The world has been experiencing the era of commemoration for several decades. The events and heroes, usually doomed to oblivion until recently, are being commemorated. Many monuments appear out of an initiative of social committees. Monuments create places important for towns in which social memory is celebrated. They are an affective reference to the past and a material basis of remembering. They bring the images of the past back, facilitate remembering, as well as judge the events and establish the heroes and anti-heroes of the history. Nowadays, a traditional approach to public monuments, marked by respect, are accompanied by unconventional forms of their usage, revealing the idea crisis of such monuments as sanctified places of memory.

Keywords

EN

monument; social memory; commemoration; place of memory

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
• Journal: Studia Etnologiczne i Antropologiczne
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 13
• Pages: 57-72

Dates

published

2013-02-20

Contributors

author

Renata Hołda