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Memories from darkness : archaeology of repression and resistance in Latin America / Pedro Funari, Andrés Zarankin, Melisa Salerno, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Contributions to global historical archaeology
- Contributions to global historical archaeology, 1574-0439
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Archaeology--Political aspects--Latin America.
- Archaeology.
- Archaeology and history--Latin America.
- Archaeology and history.
- Marxist anthropology.
- Marxian archaeology.
- Political persecution.
- Archaeology--Political aspects.
- Latin America--History--20th century.
- Latin America.
- History.
- Political persecution--Latin America.
- Marxian archaeology--Latin America.
- Marxist anthropology--Latin America.
- Latin America--Antiquities.
- Antiquities.
- Latin America--History.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 191 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Springer, [2009]
- 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.
- State terrorism included censorship, exile, detention, torture, murder, and forced disappearance. Written documents on political violence are scarce and fragmentary, with many of these sources deliberately destroyed by government authorities. New archaeological methods must be employed to reconstruct the history of the period, helping to disclose the silenced voice of victims, relatives and society as a whole.
- The contributions in this important volume show the socio-political commitment of Archaeology in Latin American to shed light on the specific case of dictatorship and repression in the region. The techniques described will also provide a valuable resource for archaeologists working to understand the nature of political violence worldwide and reconstruct other historical periods without reliable written sources.
- Contents:
- Torture, truth, repression and archaeology / Alejandro F. Haber
- Archaeology and left in Colombia / Carl Henrik Langebaek
- The archeology of conflict in Brazil / Pedro Paulo A. Funari and Nanci Vieira de Oliveira
- An archaeological view of political repressionin Uruguay (1971-1985) / José María López Mazz
- Forensic archaeology and anthropology : a balance sheet / Luis Fondebrider
- The materialization of sadism : archaeology of architecture in clandestine detention centers (Argentinian military dictatorship, 1976-1983) / Andrés Zarankin and Claudio Niro
- "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) / Melisa A. Salerno
- Scratching behind the walls : graffiti and symbolic political imagination at Cuartel San Carlos (Caracas, Venezuela) / Rodrigo Navarrete Sánchez and Ana María López
- The archaeology of a search : an archeological search : the history of the finding of "Che" Guevara's remains / Roberto Rodríguez Suárez
- "Mexico, 1968" : among Olympic fanfares, government repression and genocide / Patrica Fournier and Jorge Martínez Herrera
- Revealing memoris from darkness / Martin Hall.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781441906786
- 1441906789
- OCLC:
- 401159385
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