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

American Ethnologist

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 836-860

  Roseman, Sharon R ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

"Making do," Fascism; Oral history; Politics of memory; Spanish Galicia; Western Europe

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030359886     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.1996.23.4.02a00090     Document Type: Article

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