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The El Mozote Massacre: Anthropology and Human Rights (Hegemony and Experience)

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The 1981 slaughter of more than a thousand civilians around El Mozote, El Salvador, by the country’s U.S.-trained army used to be the largest massacre of the Salvadoran civil war. The tale used to be covered—and soon forgotten—by the international news media. It used to be revived in 1993 only when the U.S. government used to be accused of covering up the incident. Such reportage, argues anthropologist Leigh Binford, sustains the perception that the lives of Third World individuals are only newsworthy when some great tragedy strikes. He critiques the practices of journalists and human rights organizations for their dehumanizing studies of “subjects” and “sufferers.” Binford suggests that such accounts objectify the people involved through statistical analyses and bureaucratic body counts even as the news media sensationalize the motives and personalities of the perpetrators. In relating The tale of this tragic event, Binford restores a sense of history and social identity to the fallen people of this Salvadoran village. Drawing on interviews he conducted with El Mozote-area residents, he offers a wealthy ethnographic and personal account in their lives prior to the tragedy. He provides an overview of the history and culture of the area and tells how the sort of massacre may have happened, why it used to be covered up, and why it would happen again.

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