Abstract
The objective of this article is to trace analytical connections between architectures, the use and enhancement of objects and historical figures that intervene in the political-cultural elaboration of a narrative typical of an identity singularity centered on the remembrance of national borders. These are museums, monuments and commemorative sites, that is, institutional devices that make relevant events and important figures visible, and where shared meanings operate in symbolic and representational terms. Museums, monuments and commemorative sites are artifacts that make up the significant framework of nationalism, which contribute to the daily reproduction of the nation as a community, in time and space, be it Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina or any other.
In this article, these material and symbolic supports are interpreted as instruments that actively participate in the remembrance of a national belonging of the citizens, of those who reside here, while remembering the difference with those other neighboring communities, those called neighboring countries there. These borders include those that arise from the process of mutual formation of neighboring national states (agreed interstate borders), by the advance of colonization on nomadic societies (the historical colonization borders) or by the conquest of extensions after a war (wars of border). To account for this, in methodological terms progress has been made in visits and participant observation, exploratory interviews and review of material and virtual sources in museums, memorial sites, memory sites or iconic places marked by public policy.
Keywords:
Border; Memory; Artifacts and devices; Nation; Imaginary
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