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Public Commemoration Monuments and memorial places are sites of public commemoration, understood as a matrix of activity, through which social groups express “a collectively shared knowledge […] of the past, on which a group's sense of unity and individuality is based.”1 The group that organizes the commemoration inherits earlier → meanings attached to the event and site, as well as adding new meanings. Their activity is crucial to the presentation and preservation of commemorative forms and sites. When such groups disperse or disappe…