What heritage does and does not do to identity: some answers from an ethnographic perspective
This paper explores how caretakers of slave-era heritage sites objectify and enact what Robert Bellah and his co-authors call "communities of memory" in a racially polarized United States and how the public interpret their efforts at creating what amounts to official history. It highlights...
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Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
2005-06-01
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| Series: | Horizontes Antropológicos |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-71832005000100004 |