Heritage today

"Heritage today", through the thematic stations it suggests, is a stopover at the places and moments where a "historical" linearity - which has geometrised our way of understanding our past - breaks down, in order to reinvent the reflexes by which peoples access culture and civilisation. Monuments, museums, cemeteries, sanctuaries, archives, collections, emblems, commemorations, festivals and anniversaries are all places of memory that ensure that past memories are brought to the surface and constantly staged to reproduce collective meaning.

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Doutor em geologia quaternária e pré-história, laboratório de geologia quaternária Luminy, Marselha. Director de investigação em pré-história e geologia quaternária no Centro Nacional de Pesquisas Pré-históricas, Antropológicas e Históricas. Especialista em património cultural e natural.