When cultures divide: Writing public history in Latin America

Wyndham, M; Read, P

When cultures divide: Writing public history in Latin America

Wyndham, M

Read, P

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Public Historian, 2018, 40 (1), pp. 34 - 53
Issue Date:: 2018-02-01

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dc.contributor.author	Wyndham, M https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6496-8753	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Read, P	en_US
dc.date.issued	2018-02-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Public Historian, 2018, 40 (1), pp. 34 - 53	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0272-3433	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/133150
dc.description.abstract	© 2018 University of California Press. All rights reserved. We two Australian public historians recently published a history of memorials in Santiago, Chile, to the victims of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship, Narrow but Endlessly Deep: The Struggle for Memorialisation in Chile since the Transition to Democracy. Our different upbringings and experiences (one a migrant from Cuba, the other Anglo-Australian) produced disagreements as to how we should interpret the memorializations. In particular, the foundational narratives of Cuba and Australia in which we were raised affected our differing interpretations. The article explains these differing foundational narratives and then cites examples of textual disagreements and how we resolved them. We believe that this challenging interrogation of lifetime values improved the monograph and may offer insights for other cross-cultural collaborations.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Public Historian	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1525/tph.2018.40.1.34	en_US
dc.subject.classification	History	en_US
dc.title	When cultures divide: Writing public history in Latin America	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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utslib.citation.volume	40	en_US
utslib.for	2103 Historical Studies	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CPCE - Centre for Creative Practices and the Cultural Economy
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© 2018 University of California Press. All rights reserved. We two Australian public historians recently published a history of memorials in Santiago, Chile, to the victims of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship, Narrow but Endlessly Deep: The Struggle for Memorialisation in Chile since the Transition to Democracy. Our different upbringings and experiences (one a migrant from Cuba, the other Anglo-Australian) produced disagreements as to how we should interpret the memorializations. In particular, the foundational narratives of Cuba and Australia in which we were raised affected our differing interpretations. The article explains these differing foundational narratives and then cites examples of textual disagreements and how we resolved them. We believe that this challenging interrogation of lifetime values improved the monograph and may offer insights for other cross-cultural collaborations.

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