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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Main Author: Eric Gable
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2005-06-01
Series:Horizontes Antropológicos
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-71832005000100004

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