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November 20, 2007
Lessie Jo Frazier, PhD'98
Salt in the Sand: Memory, Violence, and the Nation-State in Chile, 1890 to the Present, Duke University Press, 2007.
The book: This historical ethnography 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. It shows how memory works to create political subjectivities mobilized for specific political projects within the process of nation-state formation. Lessie Jo 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.
The author: Historian and anthropologist Lessie Jo Frazier is assistant professor of gender studies and adjunct assistant professor of history at Indiana University. She is a coeditor of "Gender's Place: Feminist Anthropologies of Latin America."
Posted by tobiaslw at November 20, 2007 11:54 AM