The monumental challenge of preservation : the past in a volatile world /
The preservation of cultural heritage is a monumental task. The aim of this book is to explore the preservation of movable, immovable, manmade and socially constructed heritage in an expansive way. Studies in preservation have tended to reflect particular disciplinary lines, library and archival stu...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
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[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction and the model
- A tale of monuments in two cities : cultural genocide
- To destroy culture : Raphael Lemkin's lessons about genocide and how they relate to cultural heritage
- Documenting cultural heritage in Syria : approaches to preservation
- Collecting as preservation
- Worth dying for? Richard Nickel and historic preservation in Chicago : information or object?
- What are we really trying to preserve : the original or the copy?
- It takes a (virtual) village : some thoughts on digital preservation : the greening of preservation
- Sustainable preservation : enduring, ephemeral preservation
- Preservation : enduring or ephemeral?
- Epilogue : Berlin as a city of reconciliation and preservation.