An Everlasting Name : : Cultural Remembrance and Traditions of Onymic Commemoration / / Maoz Azaryahu.
The ever-growing interest in cultural memory has generated an impressive body of academic literature on public commemoration, but not enough attention has been paid until now to the power and appeal of names to transcend death. This book is the first to investigates onymic commemoration as a technol...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XII, 200 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Figures
- 1 Introduction
- 2 “Remember My Name”: The Quest for Fame and Immortality
- 3 Remembered by their Name: Practices and Traditions of Onymic Commemoration
- 4 On Display: How Names are Arranged in a Casualty List
- 5 Who are they? Beyond a Nominal Afterlife
- 6 Putting a Face to a Name: Patterns of Symbolic Accretion
- 7 A Matter of Endurance: Damnatio Memoriae
- 8 Concluding Remarks
- References
- Index