Memory at One-Sixth Scale: The Immigrant Families Rebuilding Ancestral Worlds in Miniature
For many American immigrant families, the home left behind exists now only in memory—in descriptions passed between generations, in faded photographs, in the particular way a grandmother's hands moved when she described the kitchen where she grew up. A growing number of diaspora communities are translating those memories into miniature: constructing precise, painstaking replicas of ancestral homes, village streets, and lost landscapes as acts of cultural preservation and intergenerational witnes