The writer Howard Zinn recited this phrase "history is the memory of the states" in a reading called “A People’s History of the United States”. In my own opinion, this is related to the fact of production of historical knowledge and preservation which is an aspect of state power in a similar way to the following sentence that says "winners write history books" where states who have more power determine what story they want the world to know. An example that represents this is the movie "Damiana". This film represents a war between two different cultures which are the colonial culture and the culture of the Achés, where these cultures show physical and psychological violence. In the film the colonists realize the ideology and colonial knowledge,
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During their trip to the museum, the lords of the village Aché then asked the museum that the remains of Damiana and the other relatives should be returned to their tribe saying that it belonged to them and their own tribe and not the museum, when the lords of the Aché people came to the museum they founded pots of more than 100 years old, a wooden ax with stone, and among other things. What matters most to the Aché people were the remains of Damiana and their families which the museum agreed to return what belonged to them. When they carried the remains of Damiana they realized that Damiana's skull was not complete, which in the museum was called as skull 515 or as collection 1908/14. When the remains arrived in the Aché village, people cried because they said that the remains that were there were like the remains of their relatives. The bones were shown to the people one by one. Later, the skull was found in a hospital of the museum called Charité in Berlin. The skull was returned shortly to the Aché people, the skull showed marks of bowie knife and very strong punches that left marks on the skull whom was given by the settlers. After having shown the remains to all the Aché people, the Ache people walked to where they were going to give a very traditional burial. When they finished burying the remains and singing, they cleaned the tomb where the remains of Damiana and relatives of the Aché culture were
During their trip to the museum, the lords of the village Aché then asked the museum that the remains of Damiana and the other relatives should be returned to their tribe saying that it belonged to them and their own tribe and not the museum, when the lords of the Aché people came to the museum they founded pots of more than 100 years old, a wooden ax with stone, and among other things. What matters most to the Aché people were the remains of Damiana and their families which the museum agreed to return what belonged to them. When they carried the remains of Damiana they realized that Damiana's skull was not complete, which in the museum was called as skull 515 or as collection 1908/14. When the remains arrived in the Aché village, people cried because they said that the remains that were there were like the remains of their relatives. The bones were shown to the people one by one. Later, the skull was found in a hospital of the museum called Charité in Berlin. The skull was returned shortly to the Aché people, the skull showed marks of bowie knife and very strong punches that left marks on the skull whom was given by the settlers. After having shown the remains to all the Aché people, the Ache people walked to where they were going to give a very traditional burial. When they finished burying the remains and singing, they cleaned the tomb where the remains of Damiana and relatives of the Aché culture were