The disappearance of people in Peru generates a sense of rupture in the rural Andes. It is a product of recruitment and armed conflicts between guerrilla groups and law enforcement agencies and paramilitary groups during the decades of 1980 and1990. This sense of rupture is regained through the continual presence of the absent, expressed in a particular concept of posthumous life which extends beyond the death of the person who has disappeared. Through field work and in-depth interviews, this article recovers the stories of those who live in places where death was not peaceful or properly ritualized, meaning, where death was not domesticated. In order to understand the ontological ambivalence of the figure of the disappeared, who is neither...
This article describes a popular religious practice: the worship of the Souls of Purgatory and the d...
This article identifies the characteristics of the funeral rituals that remain in force in the rural...
How to give presence to a body that has been exposed to violence until it disappears? How to exhibit...
En este trabajo voy hablar de la experiencia de dos grupos de familiares de desaparecidos de la últi...
Este texto analiza las prácticas de duelo frente a la desaparición de personas por razones políticas...
En este trabajo se observará la forma en que familiares del organismo Familiares de Desaparecidos y...
In Colombia, disappearance of people has taken place in a complex ecology of human and non-human, un...
O presente trabalho é fruto de uma pesquisa desenvolvida com sujeitos pertencentes a populações oriu...
Disappearance was a distinctive act of Latin American dictatorships during the 1970s. Through them, ...
Why recall experiences of violence? Why do we, as anthropologists, inquire about painful stories? Ca...
Pese a que la muerte es un estado generalizable, no está exento de conflictos y divergencias al ser ...
296 p.This thesis explores the continuities of the forms of disappearance in Brazil during the dicta...
A detailed analysis of the empirical data concerning Amazonian mourning reveals two types of contras...
In societies living at the margins of the State, interpersonal relationships and the use of power, a...
En este trabajo veremos de qué manera, las exhumaciones e identificaciones de los cuerpos desaparec...
This article describes a popular religious practice: the worship of the Souls of Purgatory and the d...
This article identifies the characteristics of the funeral rituals that remain in force in the rural...
How to give presence to a body that has been exposed to violence until it disappears? How to exhibit...
En este trabajo voy hablar de la experiencia de dos grupos de familiares de desaparecidos de la últi...
Este texto analiza las prácticas de duelo frente a la desaparición de personas por razones políticas...
En este trabajo se observará la forma en que familiares del organismo Familiares de Desaparecidos y...
In Colombia, disappearance of people has taken place in a complex ecology of human and non-human, un...
O presente trabalho é fruto de uma pesquisa desenvolvida com sujeitos pertencentes a populações oriu...
Disappearance was a distinctive act of Latin American dictatorships during the 1970s. Through them, ...
Why recall experiences of violence? Why do we, as anthropologists, inquire about painful stories? Ca...
Pese a que la muerte es un estado generalizable, no está exento de conflictos y divergencias al ser ...
296 p.This thesis explores the continuities of the forms of disappearance in Brazil during the dicta...
A detailed analysis of the empirical data concerning Amazonian mourning reveals two types of contras...
In societies living at the margins of the State, interpersonal relationships and the use of power, a...
En este trabajo veremos de qué manera, las exhumaciones e identificaciones de los cuerpos desaparec...
This article describes a popular religious practice: the worship of the Souls of Purgatory and the d...
This article identifies the characteristics of the funeral rituals that remain in force in the rural...
How to give presence to a body that has been exposed to violence until it disappears? How to exhibit...