Memories from Darkness Archaeology of Repression and Resistance in Latin America /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Funari, Pedro. (Editor), Zarankin, Andres. (Editor), Salerno, Melissa. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Series: Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0679-3

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 militar...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The History of Finding Che Guevara's remains
• Graffiti and Political Symbolism at Cuartel San Carlos
• Mexico 1968: Among Olympic Fanfare, Government Repression and Genocide
• Archaeology and Left in Colombia
• Archaeology of Conflict in Brazil
• Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology
• Torture, Truth, Repression, and Archaeology
• An Archaeological View of Political Repression in Uruguay
• Archaeology of Architecture in Clandestine Centers of Detention
• The Construction of 'Subversive' Social Categories and the Reshaping of Subjectivities Through Body and Dress.