Cultural memory and the construction of identity / edited by Dan Ben-Amos and Liliane Weissberg.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-311) and index.

Worn worlds: clothes, mourning, and the life of things / Peter Stallybrass -- Memory confined / Liliane Weissberg -- From calendar custom to national memory: European commonplaces / Dorothy Noyes and Roger D. Abrahams -- Sites of memory: discourses of the past in Israeli pioneering settlement museums / Tamar Katriel -- The liberation of Buchenwald: images and the shape of memory / Barbie Zelizer -- Custer loses again: the contestation over commodified public memory / Roberta Pearson -- "You must remember this...": or libraries as a locus of cultural memories / Daniel Traister -- Placing race at Jefferson's Monticello / Robert Blair St. George -- Critical memory and the Black public sphere / Houston Baker, Jr.