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English

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2007

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Frazier Lessie Jo Frazier

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Duke University Press

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2007

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Date de parution

17 juillet 2007

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780822389668

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

16 Mo

Salt in the Sand is a compelling historical ethnography of the interplay between memory and state violence in the formation of the Chilean nation-state. The historian and anthropologist Lessie Jo Frazier focuses on northern Chile, which figures prominently in the nation's history as a site of military glory during the period of national conquest, of labor strikes and massacres in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, and of state detention and violence during World War II and the Cold War. It was also the site of a mass-grave excavation that galvanized the national human rights movement in 1990, during Chile's transition from dictatorship to democracy. Frazier analyzes the creation of official and alternative memories of specific instances of state violence in northern Chile from 1890 to the present, tracing how the form and content of those memories changed over time. In so doing, she shows how memory works to create political subjectivities mobilized for specific political projects within what she argues is the always-ongoing process of nation-state formation. Frazier's broad historical perspective on political culture challenges the conventional periodization of modern Chilean history, particularly the idea that the 1973 military coup marked a radical break with the past.Analyzing multiple memories of state violence, Frazier innovatively shapes social and cultural theory to interpret a range of sources, including local and national government archives, personal papers, popular literature and music, interviews, architectural and ceremonial commemorations, and her ethnographic observations of civic associations, women's and environmental groups, and human rights organizations. A masterful integration of extensive empirical research with sophisticated theoretical analysis, Salt in the Sand is a significant contribution to interdisciplinary scholarship on human rights, democratization, state formation, and national trauma and reconciliation.

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

17 juillet 2007

EAN13

9780822389668

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

16 Mo

ST H EI N A LT SA N D

M E M O R Y, V I O L E N C E , A N D T H E N AT I O N  S T AT E

I N C H I L E , 1 8 9 0 T O T H E P R E S E N T

L E S S I E J O F R A Z I E R

P O L I T I C S , H I S TO RY, A N D C U LT U R E

A series from the International Institute at the University of Michigan

series editors: George Steinmetz and Julia Adams

Series Editorial Advisory Board

Fernando Coronil Mamadou Diouf Michael Dutton Geo√ Eley Fatma Müge Göcek Nancy Rose Hunt Andreas Kalyvas Webb Keane

David Laitin Lydia Liu Julie Skurski Margaret Somers Ann Laura Stoler Katherine Verdery

Elizabeth Wingrove

Sponsored by the International Institute at the University of Michigan and published by Duke University Press, this series is centered around cultural and historical studies of power, politics, and the state—a ﬁeld that cuts across the disciplines of history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and cultural studies. The focus on the relationship between state and culture refers both to a methodological approach—the study of politics and the state using culturalist methods—and a substantive one that treats signifying practices as an essential dimension of politics. The dialectic of politics, culture, and history ﬁgures prominently in all the books selected for the series.

Salt in the Sand

M E M O RY, V I O L E N C E , A N D T H E N AT I O N  S TAT E

I N C H I L E , 1 8 9 0 TO T H E P R E S E N T

L E S S I E J O F R A Z I E R

Salt in the Sand

Duke University Press

Durham & London

2007

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Pat, Piner, Lynn—my foundation Phil, Jhenefer, Jhony, Maiara, MacIntyre —my future

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION Memory 1

xi xiii

Ethnography, History, and

PA RT I . T E M P L AT E S 1Memory and theCamanchacas Calientesof Chilean Nation-State Formation 21 2Structures of Memory, Shapes of Feeling: Chronologies of Reminiscence and Repression in Tarapacá (1890–Present) 58

PA RT I I . C O N J U N C T U R E S 3Dismantling Memory: Structuring the Forgetting of the Oﬁcina Ramírez (1890–1891) and La Coruña (1925) Massacres 85 4Song of the Tragic Pampa: Structuring the Remembering of the Escuela Santa María Massacre (1907) 117 5Conjunctures of Memory: The Detention Camps in Pisagua Remembered (1948, 1973, 1990) and Forgotten (1943, 1956, 1984) 158 6The Melancholic Economy of Reconciliation: Talking with the Dead, Mourning for the Living 190

CONCLUSIONDemocratization and Arriving at the ‘‘End of History’’ in Chile 243

Notes261 Selective Bibliography Index365

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