Obituaries As A Historical Record: Preserving Adrian's Collective Memory

Bridget fowler makes great use of the theories of pierre bordieu,.

Includes bibliographical references (p.

Webshe offers sustained evidence that although contemporary obituary pages have enjoyed a cosmetic transformation, they continue to enshrine many of the selection.

Webstudies of collective memory address how people create and maintain a shared representation of their group’s past and group identity.

Webin tracing the ways in which aboriginal women have been projected on the canvass of the nation’s memorials—in obituaries—this article interrogates the.

Webthe first serious academic study of obituaries, this book focuses on how societies remember.

Weba second approach is to explore the way a community uses its records for collective memory, and how archivists can support communities to maintain their own heritage.

In particular, we conside how.