Arqueologías de la clandestinidad. Una revisión de los trabajos efectuados en los centros de detención clandestinos de la última dictadura militar en Argentina.
Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: Between 1976 and 1983, Argentina suffered under a military dictatorship\nthat employed enforced disappearance as one of its main weapons to silence\nall forms of opposition. Clandestine detention centers played a key role in\nthe strategy of disappearance: people illegally detained where taken there,\nsubjected to all kinds of torture and �frequently� murdered. Since the return\nof democracy, but especially in the last decade, some archaeologists became\ninterested in understanding what happened in those places. In this article we\noffer an overview of the works conducted by archaeologists in Argentinean\nformer centers of detention, torture and extermination. We have multiple\ngoals: contextualize the history and development of the investigations;\ndiscuss the relationship of archaeologists with other social actors (including\ncivil servants, survivors, victims� relatives, society as a whole); present their\nmain lines of inquiry (search and identification of the bodies, analysis of the\nmateriality of space and objects); consider some emblematic projects that\nallow understanding the diversity of activities conducted and the results\nobtained.
Language: Spanish
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2260893971