Aside from their commercial purposes, invented traditions can create a milieu de mémoire, an environment of memory.: A communal event in public life, that functions through associations with diverse places, spaces, and groups, relies upon metonymic constructions, and condenses, abridges, alters, displaces, and projects fragments of the past, making them alive in the present for particular groups...[environments of memory] favor the present tense.
I just wish the sound was on!!
egghead1961 3 years ago
Aside from their commercial purposes, invented traditions can create a milieu de mémoire, an environment of memory.: A communal event in public life, that functions through associations with diverse places, spaces, and groups, relies upon metonymic constructions, and condenses, abridges, alters, displaces, and projects fragments of the past, making them alive in the present for particular groups...[environments of memory] favor the present tense.
symbolpond 3 years ago
Palelee... hrrrr.
That must have been sooooo COLD!
oilikaarina 3 years ago