Abstract

SANCHEZ DEL OLMO, Sara. Sacralization, Ritualization and Entertainment Around the Past: The Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos in Chile. Anu.hist.reg.front. [online]. 2016, vol.21, n.2, pp.193-216. ISSN 0122-2066.  https://doi.org/10.18273/revanua.v21n2-2016008.

The aim of this paper is to develop a critical reflection on the process of public recording of the (traumatic) memory in Latin America. From a specific case, the Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos in Chile; We intend to explore the sacralization processes made within this institution and analyze the role of the Museum in legitimizing a narrative. Our goal is to show how any institutional materialization process of remembrance involves not only the choice of a story but, above all, the attempt to give official recognition to an (imagined) speech about the past. The result is a space for the celebration of the cult of memory, a place full of ritualized practices that expel from the institution everything that defies the enshrined order, and everything that promotes skepticism.

Keywords : Chile; Memory; Museum; Dictatorship.

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