Concepts of Sacrifice and Trauma in Australian War Commemoration

The concept of sacrifice plays a significant role in commemorative ritual because it aids collective amnesia and the forgetting of war trauma. Collective amnesia is the product of several processes, both official and individual, which work to disguise aspects of war trauma represented in war memoria...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stephens, John
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2015
Online Access:https://journals.lincoln.ac.nz/index.php/lr/article/view/811
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/13426