Our Place in Time: Exploring Heritage and Memory in Singapore
Our Place in Time is a collection of papers presented at a forum on 17-18 September 1994. It discusses our search for identity as an attempt to recover and rediscover ‘the living presence of the past’, for ‘heritage is not simply what we inherit from the past, as if it were fixed and given; rather,...
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sg-smu-ink.soss_research-30862017-08-14T03:58:23Z Our Place in Time: Exploring Heritage and Memory in Singapore Kwok, Kian Woon Kwa, Chong Guan Kong, Lily Yeoh, Brenda S. A. Our Place in Time is a collection of papers presented at a forum on 17-18 September 1994. It discusses our search for identity as an attempt to recover and rediscover ‘the living presence of the past’, for ‘heritage is not simply what we inherit from the past, as if it were fixed and given; rather, it embodies and discloses forms of human possibilities – possible ways of life, hopes and fears, aspirations fulfilled and unfulfilled. The book discusses how heritage answers fundamental questions such as what it means to be human and how recollecting the past is a part of projecting our future 1999-01-01T08:00:00Z text https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1829 https://search.library.smu.edu.sg/permalink/65SMU_INST/1lk8vc3/alma993901902601 Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Asian Studies Human Geography Urban Studies |
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Our Place in Time is a collection of papers presented at a forum on 17-18 September 1994. It discusses our search for identity as an attempt to recover and rediscover ‘the living presence of the past’, for ‘heritage is not simply what we inherit from the past, as if it were fixed and given; rather, it embodies and discloses forms of human possibilities – possible ways of life, hopes and fears, aspirations fulfilled and unfulfilled. The book discusses how heritage answers fundamental questions such as what it means to be human and how recollecting the past is a part of projecting our future |
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