Tragedies, Tourism, and the Making of Commemorative Places
Sather-Wagstaff, Joy Marie
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Description
Title
Tragedies, Tourism, and the Making of Commemorative Places
Author(s)
Sather-Wagstaff, Joy Marie
Issue Date
2007
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Torres, Arlene
Department of Study
Anthropology
Discipline
Anthropology
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Museology
Language
eng
Abstract
Third, in examining the contemporary material and visual culture of travel and museums as a means through which identities, memory, and historicity are constructed over time and in space, I focus ethnographically on individuals' use of such culture rather than limit my analysis solely to the objects and images. This approach contributes to our understanding of identity, memory, historicity as dynamic, processual, mediated through polysensory experiential and narrative practices, and highly varied over time, space and communities of belonging. Fourth, in looking to the materiality and visuality of memory as expressed through vernacular practices such as folk epigraphy, commemorative assemblages and photography, I trace the popularization and formalization of such practices as contemporary phenomena for making both places and selves. As commemorative places of scale continue to emerge and incorporate vernacular memory practices and a memory industry geared towards personal historiography in the everyday grows, my work contributes to further understanding the dialogical relationships between place and identity-making across social and individual spheres.
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