Paramilitarism and everyday life in San Carlos (Antioquia): ethnography from the perspective of an anthropology of violence
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https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.boan.17774Keywords:
Anthropology of violence, ethnography, reflexivity, armed conflict, paramilitary, memory, social suffering, victims, perpetrators, El Jordán, San Carlos (Antioquia).Abstract
This paper presents an ethnographic study of subjective relations between civilians and paramilitaries, demonstrating forms of adaptation, discretion and instrumentalization, and the social legitimation of violence. In addition to reviewing the theoretical contributions of the anthropology of violence, the paper discusses ethical and methodological dilemmas of ethnographic work in armed conflict analysis, and the treatment of testimonies and memories. These discussions are supported by a documentary and ethnographic review in the district of the municipality of El Jordán-San Carlos, which, since 1997, served as an operation center of different paramilitary groups whose area of influence was eastern Antioquia and who went there based on their family ties.
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