"How we built the road': The politics of memory in rural Galicia

Title"How we built the road': The politics of memory in rural Galicia
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication1996
AuthorsSharon R. Roseman
JournalAmerican Ethnologist
Volume23
Issue4
Pagination836
ISSN00940496
Abstract

Examines the use of history as a form of `making do' through an analysis of historical narrative of localism about the 1964 construction of a highway connecting a settlement to the national infrastructure. Narration by a group of Spanish Galician villagers; Contention of the official understanding of economic development projects as delivered to local communities from the `outside'.

Short Title`How we built the road'