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Heritage and the Existential Need for History / Maud Webster.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Webster, Maud, author.
- Series:
- Florida scholarship online.
- Florida scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cultural property--Antiquities.
- Cultural property.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (137 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2021]
- Summary:
- In a sweeping survey of archaeological sites spanning thousands of years, this book asks fundamental questions about the place of cultural heritage in Western society. What is history? Why do we write about the events of yesterday and set up memorials for them? Why do we visit places where momentous things have happened?
- Contents:
- Prologue: Cy Twombly's Longing
- Introduction: About This Book
- On Being In Time: History, Death, Text
- Archaeological Cases: Blood from Stone
- Historical Cases: Contextualizing the Self
- By Way of a Conclusion: The Heart of the Matter
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 25, 2021).
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813067032
- 0813067030
- 9780813057774
- 0813057779
- OCLC:
- 1200038110
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