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This work aims to display the mechanisms at work when it comes to memory, identity construction a... more This work aims to display the mechanisms at work when it comes to memory, identity construction and re-construction regarding a group of libanese immigrants and their descendants in the northern mexican city of Torreón. The weaving of a collective fiction of the self and the home country, food culture and the selection and loss of identity symbols are concepts that will help to draw this picture of an immigration history that is mainly an emotional process of identity plasticiy.
This is a first approach to a larger reflection about the nature and actual possibilites of a cul... more This is a first approach to a larger reflection about the nature and actual possibilites of a cultural museum, taking into account that a discourse renovation in this kind of museums is perceived as necessary step in order to insert the centuries-old institution into today's concerns and publics.
This work aims to display the mechanisms at work when it comes to memory, identity construction a... more This work aims to display the mechanisms at work when it comes to memory, identity construction and re-construction regarding a group of libanese immigrants and their descendants in the northern mexican city of Torreón. The weaving of a collective fiction of the self and the home country, food culture and the selection and loss of identity symbols are concepts that will help to draw this picture of an immigration history that is mainly an emotional process of identity plasticiy.
This work aims to display the mechanisms at work when it comes to memory, identity construction a... more This work aims to display the mechanisms at work when it comes to memory, identity construction and re-construction regarding a group of libanese immigrants and their descendants in the northern mexican city of Torreón. The weaving of a collective fiction of the self and the home country, food culture and the selection and loss of identity symbols are concepts that will help to draw this picture of an immigration history that is mainly an emotional process of identity plasticiy.
This is a first approach to a larger reflection about the nature and actual possibilites of a cul... more This is a first approach to a larger reflection about the nature and actual possibilites of a cultural museum, taking into account that a discourse renovation in this kind of museums is perceived as necessary step in order to insert the centuries-old institution into today's concerns and publics.
This work aims to display the mechanisms at work when it comes to memory, identity construction a... more This work aims to display the mechanisms at work when it comes to memory, identity construction and re-construction regarding a group of libanese immigrants and their descendants in the northern mexican city of Torreón. The weaving of a collective fiction of the self and the home country, food culture and the selection and loss of identity symbols are concepts that will help to draw this picture of an immigration history that is mainly an emotional process of identity plasticiy.