Memories from Darkness

by Funari, Pedro; Zarankin, Andres; Salerno, Melissa

• ISBN13: 9781441906786
• ISBN10: 1441906789
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-02
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

The study of Archaeology in Latin America has been strongly affected by the socio-political setting of the region. The history of state repression in the 1960s-1980s is particularly challenging to study, with many holes in the traditional accounts of events. Several dictatorships (especially military governments) emerged during this period dominated by the development of the Cold War and the consequences of the Cuban Revolution. Repressive regimes remained in power for decades, until internal and international changes allowed democracy to take over a firm hold.

Table of Contents

Theoretical Discussions
Torture, Truth, Repression and Archaeology	p. 3
Archaeology and Left in Colombia	p. 9
The Archaeology of Conflict in Brazil	p. 25
An Archaeological View of Political Repression in Uruguay (1971-1985)	p. 33
Search for and Identification of Desaparecidos
Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology: A Balance Sheet	p. 47
Clandestine Detention Centers
The Materialization of Sadism; Archaeology of Architecture in Clandestine Detention Centers (Argentinean Military Dictatorship, 1976-1983)	p. 57
Objects and Representations
"They Must Have Done Something Wrong...": The Construction of "Subversion" as a Social Category and the Reshaping of Identities Through Body and Dress (Argentina, 1976-1983)	p. 81
Scratching Behind the Walls; Graffiti and Symbolic Political Imagination at Cuartel San Carlos (Caracas, Venezuela)	p. 105
Emblematic Case Studies
The Archaeology of a Search: An Archaeological Search; The History of the Finding of "Che" Guevara's Remains	p. 129
"Mexico, 1968": Among Olympic Fanfares, Government Repression and Genocide	p. 145
Concluding Remarks
Revealing Memories from Darkness	p. 177
Index	p. 187
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