Historically many world cultures have linked three disparate phenomena collective loss mourning and the construction of monuments and cultural symbols to represent the loss over time and render it memorable meaningfuland thereby bearable in a century of great loss observers of western culture have commented on the decline of mourning practices and the absence of their associated rituals the ten essays assembled here by peter homans represent in a genuinely interdisciplinary way . Symbolic loss the ambiguity of mourning and memory at centurys endpeter homans jeffrey j kripal. Request pdf on aug 1 2005 nouri gana published symbolic loss the ambiguity of mourning and memory at centurys end find read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. Homanspeter ed symbolic loss the ambiguity of mourning and memory at cen tuyk end charlottesville university press of virginia 2000 xiv 253 pp this volume constitutes a rich even profound collection of essays from cultural studies architecture history and psychology on the dynamics of mourning de pression and repression transposed . Search all 1 records in our collections the museums collections document the fate of holocaust victims survivors rescuers liberators and others through artifacts documents photos films books personal stories and moresearch below to view digital records and find material that you can access at our library and at the shapell center