Abstract

AVILA, Sebastián Leonardo  and  LANDA, Carlos. “The little piece of paper that saved my life”: objects bearing memory and the Falklands War. An. antropol. [online]. 2022, vol.56, n.2, pp.17-30.  Epub Aug 14, 2023. ISSN 2448-6221.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iia.24486221e.2022.81316.

This paper explores and analyzes the interaction between objects -understood as carriers of memories, feelings, and affections- and testimonies, observing the capacity of such relationships to recover memories of the war. From four interviews with veterans, we shall analyze the materiality between objects (present or evoked) and subjects -with their gestures and material senses- at the time of creation and unfolding of their testimonies: How do the memories of the Malvinas War relate to the objects that survived the conflict? What kind of memories do these objects evoke? What is the relationship between these memories, the senses, and the bodies of the veterans? Are all objects memory carriers? Some of these questions will guide us through words, gestures, emotions, objects, and images which represent the experience of a war that meant to be forgotten but still remains.

Keywords : Falklands War; objects memory; testimony; material culture.

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