Looking for resources discussing the impact of ephemeral relics upon the creation of memories (spontaneous or fantasy) and their involvement in the construction and authentication of "sense of place" aka how the relic attributes to the individual's emotional attachment to structure or location.
Dear William,
Here you will find some interesting works. Hope these would inspire you! Best regards.
APPADURAI, A. 1986. Introduction: commodities and the politics of value. In A. Appadurai (Ed.) The social life of things. Commodities in cultural perspective. Cambridge: University Press, pp. 3-63.
GOSDEN, C. & MARSHALL, Y. 1999. The Cultural biography of objects. World Archaeology 31 (2): 169-178.
KOPYTOFF, I. 1986. The Cultural Biography of Things: Commodization as Process. In A. Appadurai (Ed.) The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective. Cambridge: University Press, pp. 64-91.
VAN DYKE, R.M. & ALCOCK, S. 2003. Archaeologies of Memory: an introduction. In R.M. Van Dyke & S.E. Alcock (eds.) Archaeologies of Memory. Oxford: Blackwell: 1-13.
WERTSCH, JAMES V. 2002. Voices of collective remembering. Cambridge: University Press.