Traces de malemorts ou lieu de nostalgie ? Sanctification et/ou patrimonialisation d’un village noir détruit (Choco, Colombie)

In 2002, during a violent skirmish between the FARC guerrilla and the paramilitary forces, 170 inhabitants of the black village of Bellavista on the Bojava river took refuge in the church. They all died, charred to death through a bombing that left their village in ruins. The State policy of reparat...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:be76412624a04381a90f76f9f406a2372021-12-02T10:27:01ZTraces de malemorts ou lieu de nostalgie ? Sanctification et/ou patrimonialisation d’un village noir détruit (Choco, Colombie)1626-025210.4000/nuevomundo.70150https://doaj.org/article/be76412624a04381a90f76f9f406a2372017-02-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/70150https://doaj.org/toc/1626-0252In 2002, during a violent skirmish between the FARC guerrilla and the paramilitary forces, 170 inhabitants of the black village of Bellavista on the Bojava river took refuge in the church. They all died, charred to death through a bombing that left their village in ruins. The State policy of reparation includes re-installation of the surviving villagers in a new village, built in stone and cement on the site of the former graveyard. This new village gives rise to very ambivalent perceptions, whereas many inhabitants asked from the archbishop that the ruined church, sheltering a « Mutilated Christ », should be declared a pilgrimage site. Others wish to perennize the place as it is to remain a narrative site of violent death, and yet others want to preserve the ruins of the village as a memento of the vida sabrosa, considered as bygone for ever and an object of attachment. This case sheds light on a paradoxical and little analysed aspect of local attempts of patrimonialization, that of traces of the inflicted violence. Preserving such ruins as a narrative-site, appealing to both religious ansd memorial registers, allows a fluid polyphony of interpretations and avoids cristallizing an open memory conflict around armed violence.Anne-Marie LosonczyCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américainsarticlememory of violencemassacresnarrative-siteAfro-descendantsAttachmentsAnthropologyGN1-890Latin America. Spanish AmericaF1201-3799ENFRPTNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2017)
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topic memory of violence
massacres
narrative-site
Afro-descendants
Attachments
Anthropology
GN1-890
Latin America. Spanish America
F1201-3799
spellingShingle memory of violence
massacres
narrative-site
Afro-descendants
Attachments
Anthropology
GN1-890
Latin America. Spanish America
F1201-3799
Anne-Marie Losonczy
Traces de malemorts ou lieu de nostalgie ? Sanctification et/ou patrimonialisation d’un village noir détruit (Choco, Colombie)
description In 2002, during a violent skirmish between the FARC guerrilla and the paramilitary forces, 170 inhabitants of the black village of Bellavista on the Bojava river took refuge in the church. They all died, charred to death through a bombing that left their village in ruins. The State policy of reparation includes re-installation of the surviving villagers in a new village, built in stone and cement on the site of the former graveyard. This new village gives rise to very ambivalent perceptions, whereas many inhabitants asked from the archbishop that the ruined church, sheltering a « Mutilated Christ », should be declared a pilgrimage site. Others wish to perennize the place as it is to remain a narrative site of violent death, and yet others want to preserve the ruins of the village as a memento of the vida sabrosa, considered as bygone for ever and an object of attachment. This case sheds light on a paradoxical and little analysed aspect of local attempts of patrimonialization, that of traces of the inflicted violence. Preserving such ruins as a narrative-site, appealing to both religious ansd memorial registers, allows a fluid polyphony of interpretations and avoids cristallizing an open memory conflict around armed violence.
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author Anne-Marie Losonczy
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title Traces de malemorts ou lieu de nostalgie ? Sanctification et/ou patrimonialisation d’un village noir détruit (Choco, Colombie)
title_short Traces de malemorts ou lieu de nostalgie ? Sanctification et/ou patrimonialisation d’un village noir détruit (Choco, Colombie)
title_full Traces de malemorts ou lieu de nostalgie ? Sanctification et/ou patrimonialisation d’un village noir détruit (Choco, Colombie)
title_fullStr Traces de malemorts ou lieu de nostalgie ? Sanctification et/ou patrimonialisation d’un village noir détruit (Choco, Colombie)
title_full_unstemmed Traces de malemorts ou lieu de nostalgie ? Sanctification et/ou patrimonialisation d’un village noir détruit (Choco, Colombie)
title_sort traces de malemorts ou lieu de nostalgie ? sanctification et/ou patrimonialisation d’un village noir détruit (choco, colombie)
publisher Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
publishDate 2017
url https://doaj.org/article/be76412624a04381a90f76f9f406a237
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