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Issue Details: First known date: 1998... 1998 Sacred Places : War Memorials in the Australian Landscape
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'Memorials to Australian participation in wars abound in our landscape. From Melbourne's huge Shrine of Remembrance to the modest marble soldier, obelisk or memorial hall in suburb and country town, they mourn and honour Australians who have served and died for their country. Surprisingly, they have largely escaped scrutiny. Ken Inglis argues that the imagery, rituals and rhetoric generated around memorials constitute a civil religion, a cult of ANZAC. Sacred Places traces three elements which converged to create the cult: the special place of war in the European mind when nationalism was at its zenith; the colonial condition; and the death of so many young men in distant battle, which impelled the bereaved to make substitutes for the graves of which history had deprived them. The 'war memorial movement' attracted conflict as well as commitment. Inglis looks at uneasy acceptance, even rejection, of the cult by socialists, pacifists, feminists and some Christians, and at its virtual exclusion of Aborigines. He suggests that between 1918 and 1939 the making, dedication and use of memorials enhanced the power of the right in Australian public life. Finally, he examines a paradox. Why, as Australia's wars recede in public and private memory, and as a once British Australia becomes multicultural, have the memorials and what they stand for become more cherished than ever? Sacred Places spans war, religion, politics, language and the visual arts. Ken Inglis has distilled new cultural understandings from a familiar landscape.' (Publication summary)

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    • Carlton, Parkville - Carlton area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Miegunyah Press , 1998 .
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      Extent: xvi, 522p.p.
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      • Includes indexes and bibliographical references.
      ISBN: 0522847528
      Series: y separately published work icon Miegunyah Press Series : Second Series Miegunyah Press (publisher), 1995- Z1014067 1995- series - publisher In 1995 The Miegunyah Press became a separate imprint of MUP, and its distinctive window logo appears on all books published in the second series. Titles in the second series include a colophon page at the end of the book that lists the book's editor and designer, the typeface used in the text, the paper on which it is printed, the name of the printer and the number of copies printed. (Adapted from the publisher's website: http://www.mup.unimelb.edu.au/Miegunyah.html)

Works about this Work

The Names Inlaid Anne-Marie Conde , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Inside Story , April 2021;

'A photograph in the Australian War Memorial sends our contributor on a journey to a Tasmania rent by war'

Heart of the Anzac Heroes Ian Warden , 2005 single work column
— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 6 March 2005; (p. 19)
Ian Warden reflects on Anzac Day rituals and the reality of grief and bereavement during the Great War.
Sacred Places of War Ian Warden , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 21 September 2003; (p. 19)
Sacred Places of War Ian Warden , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 21 September 2003; (p. 19)
Heart of the Anzac Heroes Ian Warden , 2005 single work column
— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 6 March 2005; (p. 19)
Ian Warden reflects on Anzac Day rituals and the reality of grief and bereavement during the Great War.
The Names Inlaid Anne-Marie Conde , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Inside Story , April 2021;

'A photograph in the Australian War Memorial sends our contributor on a journey to a Tasmania rent by war'

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