Indianisation et dépolitisation des victimes de la guerre au Pérou. L’exemple du mémorial L’Œil-qui-pleure

The memorial The Eye that Cries was erected as a tribute to the victims of the internal armed conflict in Peru (1980-2000). It is the work of the artist Lika Mutal in coordination with various human rights activists and is a continuation of the work done by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (C...

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Main Author: Dorothée Delacroix
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Société des américanistes 2017-12-01
Series:Journal de la Société des Américanistes
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/jsa/15186
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description The memorial The Eye that Cries was erected as a tribute to the victims of the internal armed conflict in Peru (1980-2000). It is the work of the artist Lika Mutal in coordination with various human rights activists and is a continuation of the work done by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR in Spanish). The anniversary of the final report of this commission is also celebrated on this site every August 28th. Based on several observations of this ceremony, supplemented by interviews with the artist and human rights activists, this article aims to interrogate the process of ethnicization of victims and the way in which it has guided an essential component of symbolic reparation programs: commemorations of the war. The pre-Hispanic past and the “Andean cosmology” were mobilized during these commemorations in order to promote a particular category of victim presented as innocent: Quechuaphone peasants of the Andes who should be “reintegrated” into the national society. The social and political effects in post-CVR Peru of this staging of ethnicity based on a mystical cosmology are also discussed.
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Indianisation et dépolitisation des victimes de la guerre au Pérou. L’exemple du mémorial L’Œil-qui-pleure
Journal de la Société des Américanistes
indigenism
Peru
internal armed conflict
war memorial
war memories
Andean cosmology
title Indianisation et dépolitisation des victimes de la guerre au Pérou. L’exemple du mémorial L’Œil-qui-pleure
title_full Indianisation et dépolitisation des victimes de la guerre au Pérou. L’exemple du mémorial L’Œil-qui-pleure
title_fullStr Indianisation et dépolitisation des victimes de la guerre au Pérou. L’exemple du mémorial L’Œil-qui-pleure
title_full_unstemmed Indianisation et dépolitisation des victimes de la guerre au Pérou. L’exemple du mémorial L’Œil-qui-pleure
title_short Indianisation et dépolitisation des victimes de la guerre au Pérou. L’exemple du mémorial L’Œil-qui-pleure
title_sort indianisation et depolitisation des victimes de la guerre au perou l exemple du memorial l oeil qui pleure
topic indigenism
Peru
internal armed conflict
war memorial
war memories
Andean cosmology
url https://journals.openedition.org/jsa/15186
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