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German memorials, motifs, and meanings : a cultural history in bronze, wood, and stone / Jennifer Hansen-Glucklich.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hansen-Glucklich, Jennifer, author.
- Series:
- Public history in historical perspective.
- Public history in historical perspective series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Memorials--Germany.
- Memorials.
- Memorialization--Germany.
- Memorialization.
- Monuments--Germany.
- Monuments.
- Signs and symbols--Germany.
- Signs and symbols.
- National characteristics, German.
- Ethnopsychology--Germany.
- Ethnopsychology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 360 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- German Memorials, Motifs, and Meanings offers a unique cultural history of German memorialization. The book focuses not on a single, isolated era, but rather on enduring memorial motifs--enchanted stones, magical trees, raised fists, stone circles, and similar evocative symbols derived from myth, folklore, Christianity, national iconography, and post-Holocaust imagery. It thus takes a long-duration perspective, sweeping across the centuries to explore abiding themes such as death, rebirth, and redemption; violence and reconciliation; and sacrifice, identity, and community.
- Contents:
- The Original German Volk : Autochthony and Primal Origins
- The German Volk as Waldvolk : The Mythic Forest in German Culture
- Lebensmale (Living Memorials) : Nature's Monuments to Peace, Unification, the Departed, and the Extraordinary
- From Giants' Grave, Stone Dances, and Devils' Stones to the Twenty-First Century : Findlinge in German Memorialization
- To Perish on a Hill of Sacrifice : Meaningful Death, Self-Transcendence, and Violence
- Für Herd und Heimat (For Hearth and Home) : Memorializing Sacrifice in the Fatherland
- Bitte Gott, Mache die Seele von Pein Wieder Frei : Wayside Memorials of Admonishment, Remembrance, and Atonement
- From Medieval Blood Feuds to Modern Genocide and Refugees : Memorials of Collective Atonement, Reconciliation, and Reorientation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-68575-164-4
- OCLC:
- 1518281201
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