Our Place in Time: Exploring Heritage and Memory in Singapore
Publication Type
Edited Book
Publication Date
1-1999
Abstract
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
Discipline
Asian Studies | Human Geography | Urban Studies
Research Areas
Humanities
First Page
1
Last Page
216
ISBN
9789810412746
Publisher
Singapore Heritage Society
City or Country
Singapore
Citation
Kwok, Kian Woon; Kwa, Chong Guan; Kong, Lily; and Yeoh, Brenda S. A., "Our Place in Time: Exploring Heritage and Memory in Singapore" (1999). Research Collection School of Social Sciences. Paper 1829.
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1829
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1829
Additional URL
https://worldcat.org/isbn/9789810412746