Salt in the Sand

Lessie Jo Frazier is Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is a coeditor of Gender’s Place: Feminist Anthropologies of Latin America.

A study of memory regimes in popular and official Chilean thought.

List of Illustrations xiAcknowledgments xiiiIntroduction: Ethnography, History, and Memory 1Part I. Templates1. Memory and the Camanchacas Calientes of Chilean Nation-State Formation 212. Structures of Memory, Shapes of Feeling: Chronologies of Reminiscence and Repression in Tarapaca (1890-Present) 58Part II. Conjunctures3. Dismantling Memory: Structuring the Forgetting of the Oficina Ramirez (1890-1891) and La Coruna (1925) Massacres 854. Song of the Tragic Pampa: Structuring the Remembering of the Escuela Santa Maria Massacre (1907) 1175. Conjunctures of Memory: The Detention Camps in Pisagua Remembered (1948, 1973, 1990) and Forgotten (1943, 1956, 1984) 1586. The Melancholic Economy of Reconciliation: Talking with the Dead, Mourning for the Living 190Conclusion: Democratization and Arriving at the “End of History” in Chile 243Notes 261Selective Bibliography 355Index 365