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Inhabiting death in the presence of the body: challenges of exhumation in the case of the Malvinas War
Fecha
2021-01Registro en:
Panizo, Laura Marina; Inhabiting death in the presence of the body: challenges of exhumation in the case of the Malvinas War; Wiley; Bulletin of Latin American Research; 40; 1; 1-2021; 40-53
1470-9856
CONICET Digital
CONICET
Autor
Panizo, Laura Marina
Resumen
This article explores how a group of relatives of fallen soldiers of the Malvinas War inhabited death from the immediate aftermath of the conflict to the identification of the bodies in 2017. From a perspective borrowed from the anthropology of death and the body, it discusses how the status of these bodies shaped their relatives’ representations of these deaths, understood as holy, heroic and sacrificial and inhabited through the performance of various mourning rituals. Finally, it demonstrates how the prospect of exhumation provoked resistance and fear, due to the unpredictable agency of the ‘corporeality of the dead’ in social life.