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.

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

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Webin tracing the ways in which aboriginal women have been projected on the canvass of the nationโ€™s memorialsโ€”in obituariesโ€”this article interrogates the.

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

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

Includes bibliographical references (p.

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