Difficult Heritage by Sharon Macdonald

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How does a city and a nation deal with a legacy of perpetrating atrocity? How are contemporary identities negotiated and shaped in the face of concrete reminders of a past that most wish they did not have? This book focuses on the case of Nuremberg - a city whose name is linked with Nazism - to explore these questions and their implications.

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Difficult Heritage by Sharon Macdonald

How does a city and a nation deal with a legacy of perpetrating atrocity? How are contemporary identities negotiated and shaped in the face of concrete reminders of a past that most wish they did not have? This book focuses on the case of Nuremberg - a city whose name is linked with Nazism - to explore these questions and their implications.

"Sharon Macdonald deftly handles this complex terrain, offering a sophisticated theoretical analysis based on a well-grounded ethnographic studyIn other words, this book is an exceptional piece of anthropology."
-Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh,Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Current Anthropology, Volume 51, Number 3, June 2010

University of Manchester
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ISBN 13 9780415419918
ISBN 10 0415419913
Title Difficult Heritage
Author Sharon Macdonald
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Routledge
Year published 2008-11-14
Number of pages 240
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