Conversion, Exchange, and Replacement. Reflecting Cultural Legacies of Indemnity.
in: Restitution and Memory. Material Restoration in Europe. Ed. D. Diner, G. Wunberg. Oxford: Berghan Books 2007.
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Departing from the founding myth of the art of memory, the legend of Simonides and the transformation of the dead into an ars memoria, the article discusses – from a cultural-historical perspective – pre-modern concepts of exchange and conversion that are inscribed in the politics of reparation and restitution.
Deutsche Version: “Entgeltung durch Geld. Zum Nachleben vormoderner Tauschbegriffe in der Entschädigungspolitik”, in: Nachleben der Religionen. Kulturwissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zur Dialektik der Säkularisierung. Hgg. v. M. Treml, D. Weidner. München: Fink 2007,