ABSTRACT
Tourism is one of the main means for experiential encounters with commemorative sites, and it also generates a set of practices that mark and make such sites as meaningful and historically salient for both individuals and broader communities of belonging. Michel-Rolph Trouillot likewise identifies the inseparability of history and historicity as well as how both result from the same set of selective processes. Academic and popular discourses alike use the word "of" when articulating the relationships between space/place, memory, history, historicity, and identity, marking places as somehow containing memory rather than working in the service of making memory. Commemorative sites are tourist destinations for a number of reasons; most generally they form one dimension of what tourism scholars denote as historical, heritage, or cultural tourism. Tourism and anthropology both "arise from the same social formation and are variant forms of expansionism occupying the space opened up by extensions of power".
