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... symbolic referents and anchors for memories of these extreme situations. Rather than making distinctions between magnitudes of self- inflicted catastrophes, or creating hierarchies of significance or depth of human suffering, I hope ...
... symbolic referents and anchors for memories of these extreme situations. Rather than making distinctions between magnitudes of self- inflicted catastrophes, or creating hierarchies of significance or depth of human suffering, I hope ...
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... symbolic and material markers. Second, memories are the ob- ject of disputes, conflicts, and struggles. This premise involves the need to focus attention on the active and productive role of participants in these struggles. It is they ...
... symbolic and material markers. Second, memories are the ob- ject of disputes, conflicts, and struggles. This premise involves the need to focus attention on the active and productive role of participants in these struggles. It is they ...
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... symbolic location of the past. Nor is there a presentation of the centrality of ethnicity in spe- cific historic processes of violence and repression (such as in Peru or Guatemala). This is a fertile direction of research for colleagues ...
... symbolic location of the past. Nor is there a presentation of the centrality of ethnicity in spe- cific historic processes of violence and repression (such as in Peru or Guatemala). This is a fertile direction of research for colleagues ...
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... response or reaction to rapid change and to a life without anchors or roots. In such a cultural climate, memory has a highly significant role as a symbolic mechanism that helps strengthen the sense of 1 1. Memory in the Contemporary World.
... response or reaction to rapid change and to a life without anchors or roots. In such a cultural climate, memory has a highly significant role as a symbolic mechanism that helps strengthen the sense of 1 1. Memory in the Contemporary World.
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Contents
1 | |
2 What Memories Are We Talking About? | 8 |
3 Political Struggles for Memory | 26 |
4 History and Social Memory | 46 |
5 Trauma Testimony and Truth | 60 |
6 Engendered Memories | 76 |
7 Transmissions Legacies Lessons | 89 |
Conclusion | 103 |
A Chronology of Political Violence and Human Rights Movements | 107 |
Notes | 135 |
Works Cited | 149 |
Index | 157 |
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State Repression and the Labors of Memory Elizabeth Jelin,Judy Rein,Marcial Godoy-Anativia No preview available - 2003 |
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