Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: ethnography, history, and memory
  • Part I. Templates
  • Memory and the camanchacas calientes of Chilean nation-state formation
  • Structures of memory, shapes of feeling: chronologies of reminiscence and repression in Tarapacá (1890-present)
  • Part II. Conjunctures
  • Dismantling memory: structuring the forgetting of the Oficina Ramírez (1890-1891) and La Coruña (1925) massacres
  • Song of the tragic Pampa: structuring the remembering of the Escuela Santa María Massacre (1907)
  • Conjunctures of memory: the detention camps in Pisagua remembered (1948, 1973, 1990) and forgotten (1943, 1956, 1984)
  • The melancholic economy of reconciliation: talking with the dead, mourning for the living
  • Conclusion: democratization and arriving at the "end of history" in Chile
  • Notes
  • Selective bibliography
  • Index.