The Engineering of Genocide: An Archaeology of Dictatorship in Argentina

摘要: Dictatorships and state terrorism were sociopolitical realities shared by most Latin American countries from 1960 to 1980. These regimes pursued the persecution extermination of ideas people considered be dangerous. The history political repression in America was frequently silenced official discourses. Archaeology represents an alternative way learn more about 1960–1980 period violence. In this chapter, we discuss role played certain material devices identification punishment opponents. We will take recent dictatorship Argentina (1976–1983) as our case study, focus on two different but interrelated expressions culture: architecture dress. Both these fundamental engineering genocide, they used definition denial victims’ identities.