Salt in the Sand: Memory, Violence, and the Nation-State in Chile, 1890 to the Present

by Lessie Jo Frazier

Book Overview

Salt in the Sand is a compelling historical ethnography of the interplay between memory and state violence in the formation of the Chilean nation-state. The historian and anthropologist Lessie Jo Frazier focuses on northern Chile, which figures prominently in the nation's history as a site of military glory during the period of national conquest, of labor strikes and massacres in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, and of state...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822340038
• ISBN13: 9780822340034
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.7"