Salt in the sand : memory, violence, and the nation-state in Chile, 1890 to the present

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: ethnography, history, and memory

Part I. Templates

Memory and the camanchacas calientes of Chilean nation-state formation

Structures of memory, shapes of feeling: chronologies of reminiscence and repression in Tarapacá (1890-present)

Part II. Conjunctures

Dismantling memory: structuring the forgetting of the Oficina Ramírez (1890-1891) and La Coruña (1925) massacres

Song of the tragic Pampa: structuring the remembering of the Escuela Santa María Massacre (1907)

Conjunctures of memory: the detention camps in Pisagua remembered (1948, 1973, 1990) and forgotten (1943, 1956, 1984)

The melancholic economy of reconciliation: talking with the dead, mourning for the living

Conclusion: democratization and arriving at the "end of history" in Chile

Notes

Selective bibliography

Index