The groups need to permanently reconstruct their memories Collective memory is, through their conversations, contacts, events, uses and therefore, an active customs, conservation of their objects and belongings and and reconstructive permanence in the places where their lives have developed, function that is not because memory is the only guarantee that a group remains limited to “filing” the the same, in a world in constant movement. events that occurred, Collective memory is, therefore, an active and reconstructive but to providing function that is not limited to “filing” the events that a meaningful occurred, but to providing a meaningful interpretation interpretation that that integrates them in a coherent way in the story that a social group tells about itself and with whom it identifies. integrates them in a From this perspective, the members of a community share coherent way in the memories and, with them, an interpretation of past events, story that a social which allows them to recognize themselves in a common group tells about history, maintaining a collective identity through values, itself and with whom beliefs and myths that the collective memory transmits and it identifies. builds, also based on current history. 17