Abstract

CONDOR ALARCON, Nory  and  PEREYRA CHAVEZ, Nelson E. Missing persons in the semidarkness of the afternoon: private disputes, memory and armed internal conflict in San Miguel (Ayacucho). Anthropologica [online]. 2015, vol.33, n.34, pp.63-88. ISSN 0254-9212.

This paper studies the case of Francisco Buendía, a man of San Miguel, in the province of La Mar (Ayacucho), who was disappeared by Sendero Luminoso in 1984. From Stathis N. Kalyvas’theoretical offers, it reconstructs the secret micro-dynamics of the case, which they connected with the armed internal conflict. To find these local dynamics, one resorts to the remembrances and silences of the Buendía’s relatives and to the information that reveal the notarial and judicial documents that the memory tries to hide. This paper shows that the local dynamics contain disputes that they have to see with the process of restructuring of the land that in the locality comes from the 19th century. The disputes finally developed into policies, causing the disappearance of Buendía.

Keywords : missing persons; armed internal conflict; private disputes; memory and silences.

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