Public monuments, palliative solutions? Political geographies of memory in Goa, India.
This article examines some of the compromises that emerge in the process of converting colonial-era material culture into 'heritage' claiming to foreground a critical postcolonial consciousness. Prompted by recent controversies about statuary celebrating figures who engaged in colonial exploitation...
| Publicado en: | History & Anthropology Vol. 35; no. 5; pp. 1288 - 1318 |
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