Portraits of the cultural landscape of the pantheons: Construction of identity and collective memory

Abstract

Globalization seemed to become the enemy to defeat. For decades some authors have observed a phenomenon that devours everything in its path, destroying identity. However, there is a counterpart, one that has caused many communities or researchers decide traditions or document certain elements of their daily lives with the certainty that his eyes back to the local, encourages and protects the collective memory. The following paper discloses how by using photography and direct observation was possible to document the elements of the cultural landscape in two local cemeteries, whose habits, customs and architecture are completely different. The importance of this study is how the apprehension of these elements can recognize the construction of collective memories of the groups of mourners, mourning processes which were impacted by what lies in both scenarios.