Peter Meusburger & Michael Heffernan 
Cultural Memories [PDF ebook] 
The Geographical Point of View

Part I: Theoretical considerations: Communicative and Cultural Memory: Jan Assmann, Memory and Space in the Work of Maurice Halbwachs: David Middleton, Steven D. Brown , Disparities between Knowledge and Collective Memories: Peter Meusburger , Part II: Case Studies, The Rütli in Switzerland: minor memory – major ambition: Georg Kreis, Sharing Space? Geography and Politics in Post-conflict Northern Ireland : Brian Graham , Memory—Recollection—Culture—Identity—Space: Social Context, Identity Formation, and Self-construction of the Calé (Gitanos) in Spain: Christina West, Part III: World War II in European Cultural Memories: Seven Circles of European Memory: Claus Leggewie, Halecki Revisited: Europe’s Conflicting Cultures of Remembrance: Stefan Troebst , “Remembering for whom? Concepts for memorials in Western Europe’: Rainer Eckert, Family Memories of World War II and the Holocaust in Europe, or Is There a European Memory?: Harald Welzer , Annihilating—Preserving—Remembering: The “Aryanization” of Jewish History and Memory during the Holocaust: Dirk Rupnow, History/Archive/Memory: A Historical Geography of the U.S. Naval Memorial in Brest, France: Michael Heffernan , Places and Spaces: The Remembrance of D-Day 1944 in Normandy: Sandra Petermann , “Doors into Nowhere”: Dead Cities and the Natural History of Destruction: Derek Gregory , Part IV: Postcolonial Cultural Memories, Violent Memories: South Asian Spaces of Postcolonial Anamnesis : Stephen Legg , Spacing Forgetting: The Birth of the Museum at Fort Jesus, Mombasa, and the Legacies of the Colonization of Memory in Kenya : Denis Linehan, Joao Sarmento : Part V: Pre-modern Cultural Memories : Landscape, Transformations and Immutability in an Aboriginal Australian Culture : Robert Tonkinson , Person, Space, and Memory. Why Anthropology needs Cognitive Science and Human Geography : Jürg Wassmann , Abstracts of the Contributions, The Klaus Tschira Foundation, Index