Losing Culture Quotes

“Loss is a given of existence.”
― David Berliner, Losing Culture: Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our Accelerated Times

“Nostalgia is intimately tied up with their desire to imagine a different world: one able to withstand cultural homogenization and preserve ethnic diversity, one where social and political recognition can be gained for all. Truly, hope is never far from nostalgia.”
― David Berliner, Losing Culture: Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our Accelerated Times

“Like a doctor watching a patient in agony, the nostalgist feels powerless before the passage of time, as was the case for many anthropologists. Some of them felt outrage and a sense, no doubt, of personal loss.”
― David Berliner, Losing Culture: Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our Accelerated Times