"No (repeat no) funds will be available to Traditions Committee:" A Case Study in Memorialization Logistics

Author(s): Melissa Ziobro

Year: 2020

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Monuments, Memory, and Commemoration" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

This paper examines the records of the Fort Monmouth, NJ Memorialization Committee from the 1940s through early 21st century to shine a light on the logistics behind memorialization: who/what gets memorialized, when, where, why, and how. The paper also considers what happens when memorials are abandoned. These thousands of pages provide a unique and fascinating look behind the curtain of memorialization at just one location, yes; but they allow us, in a broader sense, to know which questions we should ask about the memorials of the past generally, and how we might proceed with the memorials of the future.

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"No (repeat no) funds will be available to Traditions Committee:" A Case Study in Memorialization Logistics. Melissa Ziobro. 2020 ( tDAR id: 457129)

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Keywords

Temporal Keywords
20th/21st century

Spatial Coverage

min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology

Record Identifiers

PaperId(s): 971