{"product_id":"salt-in-the-sand-memory-violence-and-the-nation-state-in-chile-1890-to-the-present-paperback-softback-9780822340034","title":"Salt in the Sand; Memory, Violence, and the Nation-State in Chile, 1890 to the Present (Paperback \/ softback) 9780822340034","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSalt in the Sand\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMemory, Violence, and the Nation-State in Chile, 1890 to the Present\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLessie Jo Frazier (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780822340034\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 17 July 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e408 pages, 13 illustrations, 5 maps\u003cbr\u003e24.1 x 14.9 x 2.6 cm, 0.54 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“A path-breaking study of history and memory in Chile’s legendary nitrate north that ties together the massacres of miners in the early twentieth century and the human rights abuses of the Pinochet era. A highly original contribution to memory studies, gender studies, and Chilean history.”-Peter Winn, editor of \u003ci\u003eVictims of the Chilean Miracle: Workers and Neoliberalism in the Pinochet Era, 1973–2002\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“The hot winds of the Atacama desert in northern Chile have not succeeded in erasing what has become the territory of Lessie Jo Frazier’s \u003ci\u003eSalt in the Sand\u003c\/i\u003e, a book centered on the meanings of the deep memories of repression, massacres, and executions that contributed to the formation of Chilean popular identity. Well written and theoretically and historically original, \u003ci\u003eSalt in the Sand\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the continuous dialogue between events and subjectivities throughout the Chilean twentieth century.”-Francisco Zapata, El Colegio de MÉxico\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“The modern Chilean state has been linked to violence since its inception, despite official historiography’s assertion that the 1973 coup and the Pinochet regime that followed were ‘aberrations’ in an otherwise democratic order favoring peace. Lessie Jo Frazier illuminates the competing uses of the past across cultural, racial, and class lines. Through her brilliant analysis of memory as a dynamic category employed by clashing collectivities, Frazier demonstrates how the use of memory in post-dictatorial regimes is not in and of itself liberating or new, but rather modeled on previous historical instances of remembering and forgetting.”-Licia Fiol-Matta, author of \u003ci\u003eA Queer Mother for the Nation: The State and Gabriela Mistral\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“This is a welcome and serious substantiation of the significance of emotion, soul, and heart that constitutes popular identification with, or rejection of, or outcry against the state.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Katherine Hite (Latin American Politics and Society)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eSalt in the Sand\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling historical ethnography of the interplay between memory and state violence in the formation of the Chilean nation-state. The historian and anthropologist Lessie Jo Frazier focuses on northern Chile, which figures prominently in the nation’s history as a site of military glory during the period of national conquest, of labor strikes and massacres in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, and of state detention and violence during World War II and the Cold War. It was also the site of a mass-grave excavation that galvanized the national human rights movement in 1990, during Chile’s transition from dictatorship to democracy. Frazier analyzes the creation of official and alternative memories of specific instances of state violence in northern Chile from 1890 to the present, tracing how the form and content of those memories changed over time. In so doing, she shows how memory works to create political subjectivities mobilized for specific political projects within what she argues is the always-ongoing process of nation-state formation. Frazier’s broad historical perspective on political culture challenges the conventional periodization of modern Chilean history, particularly the idea that the 1973 military coup marked a radical break with the past.\u003cp\u003eAnalyzing multiple memories of state violence, Frazier innovatively shapes social and cultural theory to interpret a range of sources, including local and national government archives, personal papers, popular literature and music, interviews, architectural and ceremonial commemorations, and her ethnographic observations of civic associations, women's and environmental groups, and human rights organizations. A masterful integration of extensive empirical research with sophisticated theoretical analysis, \u003ci\u003eSalt in the Sand\u003c\/i\u003e is a significant contribution to interdisciplinary scholarship on human rights, democratization, state formation, and national trauma and reconciliation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Illustrations xi\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xiii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Ethnography, History, and Memory 1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Templates \u003cbr\u003e 1. Memory and the Camanchacas Calientes of Chilean Nation-State Formation 21\u003cbr\u003e 2. Structures of Memory, Shapes of Feeling: Chronologies of Reminiscence and Repression in Tarapaca (1890-Present) 58\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Conjunctures \u003cbr\u003e 3. Dismantling Memory: Structuring the Forgetting of the Oficina Ramirez (1890-1891) and La Coruna (1925) Massacres 85\u003cbr\u003e 4. Song of the Tragic Pampa: Structuring the Remembering of the Escuela Santa Maria Massacre (1907) 117\u003cbr\u003e 5. Conjunctures of Memory: The Detention Camps in Pisagua Remembered (1948, 1973, 1990) and Forgotten (1943, 1956, 1984) 158\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Melancholic Economy of Reconciliation: Talking with the Dead, Mourning for the Living 190\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Democratization and Arriving at the “\u003cbr\u003eEnd of History”\u003cbr\u003e in Chile 243\u003cbr\u003e Notes 261\u003cbr\u003e Selective Bibliography 355\u003cbr\u003e Index 365\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52685349126424,"sku":"9780822340034","price":24.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/salt-in-the-sand-memory-violence-and-the-nation-state-in-chile-1890-to-the-present-paperback-softback-9780822340034","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}