INTRODUCTION Ethnography, History, and Memory

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. List of Illustrations xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. INTRODUCTION Ethnography, History, and Memory 1
6. PART I . TEMPLATES
7. 1 Memory and the Camanchacas Calientes of Chilean Nation-State Formation 21
8. 2 Structures of Memory, Shapes of Feeling: Chronologies of Reminiscence and Repression in Tarapacá (1890–Present) 58
9. PART I I . CONJUNCTURES
10. 3 Dismantling Memory: Structuring the Forgetting of the Oficina Ramírez (1890–1891) and La Coruña (1925) Massacres 85
11. 4 Song of the Tragic Pampa: Structuring the Remembering of the Escuela Santa María Massacre (1907) 117
12. 5 Conjunctures of Memory: The Detention Camps in Pisagua Remembered (1948, 1973, 1990) and Forgotten (1943, 1956, 1984) 158
13. 6 The Melancholic Economy of Reconciliation: Talking with the Dead, Mourning for the Living 190
14. CONCLUSION Democratization and Arriving at the ‘‘End of History’’ in Chile 243
15. Notes 261
16. Selective Bibliography 355
17. Index 365