... This chapter focuses on the ceremonial activities that take place in and around the memorial to commemorate the Pearl Harbor attack and related events. After an analysis of the ritual politics of military ceremony, the chapter relates the story about the way that the author was enlisted...

...Performative Commemorations ...

...Commemorating São Paulo Despite its defeat in 1932 and Vargas’s repeated political victories, by the 1950s São Paulo had become even more dominant economically, and its capital had become Brazil’s largest city. It is in this context that civic boosters in the state capital planned the massive...

... stand in direct contrast to more formal sites of commemoration. The chapter argues that as such, they facilitate an emotional connection to the past for a generation that does not remember the Korean War, but in so doing, risk confusing memory with affect, making history increasingly difficult...

... commemorations industrialization growth spectacles migration progress ...

... commemoration ritual practice national ceremony America Japan ...

... museum war history commemoration reconciliation National Park Service ...

... Argentine bicentennial embodied commemorative practices public sphere national identity Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo ...