MYSTIC CHORDS OF MEMORY: THE TRANSFORMATION OF TRADITION IN AMERICAN
CULTURE. By Michael Kammen. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1991; pp. viii+ 864. 40.00;paper …

Analyzing the ways US culture has been formed and transformed in the 80s and 90s by its
response to the Vietnam War and the AIDS epidemic, Marita Sturken argues that each has …

Just as all languages have to be learned, so too does the language of tourism requires a
process of socialization for those committed to its charge. Its proté gé s are thus placed in …

This book traces the development of'community archaeology', identifying both its
advantages and disadvantages by describing how and why tensions have arisen between …

The historic turn in organization studies has led to greater appreciation of the potential
contribution from historical research. However, there is increasing emphasis on integrating …

Although interdisciplinary scholarly attention has focused on the theoretical links between
identity and place, there exist few empirical studies that explore the processes through …

This chapter explores how visitors experience the symbolic and material dimensions of
spaces such as museums. In traveling to Cody and to the Plains Indian Museum (PIM), then …

This paper explores corporate museums as little–understood sites of organizational memory
and proposes that corporate museums, as a form of organizational memory, are used …

The idea that visitors attend museums and heritage sites for the purposes of education or
learning has dominated debate in both museology and heritage management. This chapter …

The authors offer a reading of the Civil Rights Memorial (Maya Lin, Montgomery, Alabama,
1989) as a set of rhetorical performances that reproduce the tactical dimensions of Civil …