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Dwellers of memory : youth and violence in Medellín, Colombia / Pilar Riaño-Alcalá.
Van Pelt Library HQ799.2.V56 R53 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Riaño Alcalá, Pilar.
- Series:
- Memory and narrative
- Memory and narrative series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Youth and violence--Colombia--Medellín.
- Youth and violence.
- Memory--Social aspects.
- Memory.
- Colombia--Medellín.
- Physical Description:
- xxxii, 220 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, [2006]
- Summary:
- An ethnographic study of how urban youth in Colombia came to be at the intersection of multiple forms of political, drug-related, and territorial violence in a country undergoing 40 years of internal armed conflict. It examines the ways in which youth in the city of Medellin reconfigure their lives and cultural worlds in the face of widespread violence.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-214) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0765803143
- OCLC:
- 63277969
- Publisher Number:
- 9780765803146
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