歷史地來說，重要的「兩種（雙重地）動作」

"At issue in the materials assembled here is the relationship between the experience of cultural displacement and the construction of cultural identity. It is thus marked by the tension of the historically vital double move between marking and recording absence and loss and inscribing presence."

這兩種動作分別是：標誌與記錄失落（marking and recording absence and loss），以及銘刻現前（inscribing presence）。