ABSTRACT
The past is materialized in multiple ways. It is read and interpreted via texts in many shapes, displayed in the form of artifacts, and organized within institutional settings such as museums and heritage sites. It also appears to us via film, novels, and theater, giving societies what Alison Landsberg calls a form of “prosthetic memory” (2004, p. 2). The effects produced by these emergent pasts can be emotional, affective, political, particular, and collective.
