Commemorative books are also published by government agencies, private companies, schools and individuals.
These commemorative practices then function as the realization and localization of these contested social memories.
The physical sites of commemorative rituals and pilgrimages have, quite understandably, also come under scrutiny in the wave of memory scholarship.
Ancient states often appropriated symbolic or ritual landscapes through commemorative ceremonies and building operations.
These choices have left numerous books, images and commemorative arrangements, highly conventional in their religious tone.
Birds, butterflies, and flowers came to dominate definitives and development projects such as railways and dams reappeared on commemoratives.
A villa is a sentimental topography of small triumphs and commemorative meals.
The ceremonies and commemorative publications also reveal interesting ideas on purity.
