Whose culture is it anyway? Latin America's Politics of Memory

Harvard FAS

Where should Latin America’s cultural patrimony be stored, displayed, and studied, to ensure both historical integrity and cultural significance? Who has the right to keep it? Who decides which cultural objects are kept, displayed, or returned to where they came from? Should we tear down monuments that no longer serve us? When an important writer or artist dies, who gets to keep his “stuff”? Should European Museums return indigenous artifacts to their countries of origin? Who owns these…