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Author Sion, Brigitte, 1970- author.

Title Memorials in Berlin and Buenos Aires : balancing memory, architecture, and tourism / Brigitte Sion
Published Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (xix, 129 pages)
Contents The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and the Parque de la Memoria in historical context -- Commemorating absent bodies -- Self-Indicting monuments -- Embodied memory -- Death tourism and architourism -- Multitasking memorials
Summary This book examines the conflicting performances that take place at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin and the Memorial to the Victims of State Terror in Buenos Aires. Sion offers an interdisciplinary model for analyzing sites of memory, their purpose, failure and success, and their part in a transnational circuit of remembrance practices
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-126) and index
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Subject Holocaust memorials -- Germany -- Berlin
War memorials -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and architecture.
Architecture and tourism -- Germany
Architecture and tourism -- Argentina
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Architecture and tourism
Buildings
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and architecture
Holocaust memorials
War memorials
SUBJECT Berlin (Germany) -- Buildings, structures, etc
Buenos Aires (Argentina) -- Buildings, structures, etc
Subject Argentina
Argentina -- Buenos Aires
Germany
Germany -- Berlin
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020738404
ISBN 9780739176313
0739176315