Public history, private memory: Notes from the ethnography of Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, Usa

Ethnos

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 237-252

  Gable, Eric ^a   Handler, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonial Williamsburg; Contemporary Culture; History; Memory; Museums

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645563138     PISSN: 00141844     EISSN: 1469588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00141840050076914     Document Type: Article

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