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Understanding Memorials and Monuments by Maria Camila Gonzalez is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This document provides an overview of memorials and monuments and how geographers study them. It discusses how memorials and monuments: 1) Reflect certain perspectives on the past and help legitimize those perspectives. 2) Influence how people remember and value the past through their apparent permanence. 3) Narrate history in selective ways that hide as much as they reveal and contribute to processes of both remembering and forgetting.
- Author
- Maria Camila Gonzalez
- Language
- EN