The El Mozote massacre
Subtitle: anthropology and human rights
By: Leigh Binford.
Series: Hegemony and experience
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
Subjects: Massacres -- El Salvador -- El Mozote -- History.; Human rights -- El Salvador.; Ethnology -- El Salvador.; El Salvador -- History -- 1979-1992.; El Mozote (El Salvador) -- History.
Description: "Through fieldwork among the surprisingly numerous survivors, the author reconstructs the recent social structure, culture, and history of the northeastern Salvadoran village of Segundo Montes before, during, and after the infamous massacre. She tries to place anthropology squarely into political issues, but also focuses on the people's oral testimonies more than on her own ethnography, especially resisting the easy/total categorization of the survivors as victims"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-254) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: reducing cultural distance in human rights reporting; title: The massacre; title: The eye of the oligarchy; title: The U.S. cover-up; title: The nascent community of El Mozote; title: The politics of repression and survival in northern Morazán; title: Investigation and judgment; title: Reformed military?; title: History and memory; title: An alternative anthropology: exercising the preferential option for the poor.