Michael V. Wilcox. The Pueblo Revolt and the Mythology of Conquest: An Indigenous Archaeology of Contact
In a book so dependent on nuance and detail, it is striking to find a few inaccuracies, some of them not insignificant: within the typology of sites of repression during the Pinochet dictatorship, Villa Grimaldi was not a "concentration camp" but a detention and torture center; the place itself is not difficult to find and it is certainly no longer "in the outskirts" of Santiago as it was in the sixties. Unfortunately, the author also misses a rich opportunity to interrogate the vagaries and oscillations of memory by brushing aside all too quickiy the outcome of the case of Fernando Olivares, a desaparecido whose remains turned out not to be his at all. Despite these very minor defects, this book is a solid and original contribution to the expanding work on the construction of memory in Chile.