Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: ethnography, history, and memory -- Part I. Templates -- Memory and the camanchacas calientes of Chilean nation-state formation -- Structures of memory, shapes of feeling: chronologies of reminiscence and repression in Tarapacá (1890-present) -- Part II. Conjunctures -- Dismantling memory: structuring the forgetting of the Oficina Ramírez (1890-1891) and La Coruña (1925) massacres -- Song of the tragic Pampa: structuring the remembering of the Escuela Santa María Massacre (1907) -- Conjunctures of memory: the detention camps in Pisagua remembered (1948, 1973, 1990) and forgotten (1943, 1956, 1984) -- The melancholic economy of reconciliation: talking with the dead, mourning for the living -- Conclusion: democratization and arriving at the "end of history" in Chile -- Notes -- Selective bibliography -- Index.