Our Dead and Disappeared: Reflections on the Construction of the Notion of Political Disappearance in Brazil

Based on ethnographic and documentary material, this article analyzes the social construction of political disappearance in Brazil. It argues that less than a phenomenon to be captured from reality, it is a category produced in and a producer of a social field, a point of convergence of debates and...

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Main Author: Desirée de Lemos Azevedo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Antropologia 2018-12-01
Series:Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/vibrant/2106