"Beauftil Prague" - Experincing the Antiquity and Beauty of a City in the Czech Society of the 20th Century

Abstract

This study analyzes the relation of the capital of the Czech lands to monuments, which are characterized as the tangibility of memories. The institutionalization of monument preservation founded on a scientic basis was simultaneous with the inception of modern Czech society.

Keywords

• urban anthropology
• city
• monument
• memory
• national monument
• socialism