Frazier / Adams / Steinmetz Salt in the Sand

Memory, Violence, and the Nation-State in Chile, 1890 to the Present
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8966-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 408 Seiten

Reihe: Politics, History, and Culture

A study of memory regimes in popular and official Chilean thought.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frazier, Lessie Jo

Adams, Julia

Steinmetz, George

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations xi

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction: Ethnography, History, and Memory 1

Part I. Templates

1. Memory and the Camanchacas Calientes of Chilean Nation-State Formation 21

2. Structures of Memory, Shapes of Feeling: Chronologies of Reminiscence and Repression in Tarapaca (1890-Present) 58

Part II. Conjunctures

3. Dismantling Memory: Structuring the Forgetting of the Oficina Ramirez (1890-1891) and La Coruna (1925) Massacres 85

4. Song of the Tragic Pampa: Structuring the Remembering of the Escuela Santa Maria Massacre (1907) 117

5. Conjunctures of Memory: The Detention Camps in Pisagua Remembered (1948, 1973, 1990) and Forgotten (1943, 1956, 1984) 158

6. The Melancholic Economy of Reconciliation: Talking with the Dead, Mourning for the Living 190

Conclusion: Democratization and Arriving at the “End of History” in Chile 243

Notes 261

Selective Bibliography 355

Index 365

Über Autor(innen)

Lessie Jo Frazier is Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is a coeditor of Gender’s Place: Feminist Anthropologies of Latin America.