IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/hal/journl/hal-04869831.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Destruction of Heritage, Community and Anthropomorphism

Author

Listed:
  • Damien Chaney

    (Métis Lab EM Normandie - EM Normandie - École de Management de Normandie = EM Normandie Business School)

  • Pascal Brassier

    (CleRMa - Clermont Recherche Management - ESC Clermont-Ferrand - École Supérieure de Commerce (ESC) - Clermont-Ferrand - UCA - Université Clermont Auvergne)

Abstract

The article investigates the community effects of the destruction of heritage. Drawing on the literature on anthropomorphism, we define heritage anthropomorphism as the tendency of attributing a heritage site not only human-like physical features, qualities and behaviors, but also superhuman characteristics. Through a social network and thematic analysis on the Notre-Dame cathedral fire which is perceived as the death of a human, we show that its destruction gave rise to an active virtual community of mourners, bringing together tourists, locals, officials and managers like a funeral procession. The findings also reveal different forms of grief in the conversations which include shock and denial, anger and sadness, questioning life, memory sharing and recovery.

Suggested Citation

  • Damien Chaney & Pascal Brassier, 2024. "Destruction of Heritage, Community and Anthropomorphism," Post-Print hal-04869831, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04869831
    DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2024.103839
    Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://hal.science/hal-04869831v1
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04869831. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: CCSD (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.