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Torture, Truth, Repression and Archaeology

Haber, Alejandro F.·2009·Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-0679-3_1
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During the most recent military dictatorship in Argentina, torture committed in pozos (clandestine detention centers) was not only aimed at obtaining information but at getting prisoners’ self-narratives in accordance with the executioners’ rules. As a consequence, torture involved the establishment of a certain regime of truth. Although this regime was necessarily authoritarian, it did not include passive descriptions (DuBois 1990). DuBois defined torture as the ultimate domination of bodies and – above anything else – ideas. From this point of view, torture did not limit itself to the extermination of enemies. On the contrary, it tried to impose a particular interpretation of history; that is to say, a particular “truth” in the struggle for understanding. Taking into account the undeniable disparity between the number of combatants and the number of people imprisoned and tortured during the military government, DuBois’ thesis brought to the foreground the enormous social cost of establishing “truth”.

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Authors
Haber, A. F.
Affiliations
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (AR)
Corresponding author
Haber, Alejandro F.
Venue
Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology
Publisher
Springer New York
Published
2009
Pages
3-8
ISSN
1574-0439 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4419-0679-3_1
OpenAlex
W403763741
Cited by
4
References
13
Citations by year
2022: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2017: 1
FWCI
0.00
Type
book chapter
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
Locations
Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology/Contributions to global historical archaeology (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Memory, violence, and history
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America
Keywords
torture, regimes of truth, self-narrative, state terrorism, military dictatorship, Argentine military dictatorship, clandestine detention centers, repression, Dubois, historical memory

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