Dwellers of memory : an ethnography of place, memory and violence in Medellín, Colombia

This dissertation documents the memories of Medellin's city dwellers and explores how people in violent urban contexts make sense of violence and deal with its presence in their lives. This study is defined as an anthropology of remembering; it is an ethnographic observation of the practices...

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Main Author: Riaño Alcalá, Pilar
Language:English
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/11157