1. On Being German in British America
- Author
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Bernard L. Herman
- Subjects
German ,History ,Visual Arts and Performing Arts ,Museology ,language ,Identity (object-oriented programming) ,Construct (philosophy) ,language.human_language ,Motion (physics) ,Visual arts - Abstract
Through the example of Pennsylvania-German gravestones notable for the absence of written text, this essay examines how a family of distinctive objects sets the mind and historical imagination in motion. The markers, ranging from simple silhouettes to elaborately carved memorials, ask us how these objects did the work of memory, what was remembered, and how things construct identity through conversational fields and inscriptive practices.
- Published
- 2011