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Article: Public memory and political power in Guatemala's postconflict landscape.
- Article from:
- The Geographical Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 2003
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Landmarks and memorials in a landscape, overt or discreet, play a powerful role in telling us about people's values, history, struggles, and successes. Cultural geographers have a long and rich history of recording and "reading" the landscape for both its obvious stories and its subtler ones (Lewis 1983). The types of landscapes and landmarks studied by geographers have varied widely. Traditionally, landscape studies have focused on material features related to indigenous and ethnic cultures, such as vernacular architecture, religious icons, settlements forms, sacred spaces, and agricultural landforms (see, for example, Sauer 1925; Jordan 1982, 1985; Domosh 1989; Kniffen ...