Paramilitarismo y vida cotidiana en San Carlos

Paramilitarismo y vida cotidiana
en San Carlos (Antioquia): etnografía
desde una antropología de la violencia1
Ramiro Osorio Campuzano
Antropólogo, Universidad de Antioquia
Grupo de investigación Cultura, Violencia y Territorio —CVT—
Instituto de Estudios Regionales —INER—
Dirección electrónica: [email protected]
Osorio, Ramiro (2013). “Paramilitarismo y vida cotidiana en San Carlos (AnWLRTXLDHWQRJUDItDGHVGHXQDDQWURSRORJtDGHODYLROHQFLD´(QBoletín de
Antropología. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Vol. 28, N.o 45, pp. 130-153.
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entre civiles y paramilitares evidenciando las formas de adaptación, discreción e instrumentalización
y legitimación social de la violencia. Además de revisar los aportes teóricos de la antropología de la
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1997 fue base operativa de distintos bloques paramilitares quienes entraron allí por lazos familiares y
operaron en el Oriente antioqueño.
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Paramilitarism and everyday life in San Carlos (Antioquia):
ethnography from the perspective of an anthropology
of violence
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
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documentary and ethnographic review in the district of the municipality of El Jordán-San Carlos, which,
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eastern Antioquia and who went there based on their family ties.
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memory, social suffering, victims, perpetrators, El Jordán, San Carlos (Antioquia).
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