The Memory Of/In Objects. Clandestine Handicrafts, Drawings and Embroideries by Political Prisoners at the Cordoba Penitentiary (Argentina, 1976-1979)

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https://doi.org/10.7203/KAM.16.17343

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material culture, memory and artifacts, political prisoners, Argentine dictatorship

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Between 1976 and 1979, hundreds of political prisoners at the Cordoba Penitentiary were subject to total isolation and inactivity. Letters, family visits, newspapers, magazines, manual work, exercise and sports were strictly prohibited in order to crush them physically and psychologically. In order to alleviate boredom prisoners made clandestine handicrafts, drawings and embroideries using forbidden tools such as bones, nails, towel string and jean fabric. Some of these objects were preserved at great risk and most were smuggled out of jail. They entail the memory of a collective experience of resistance inside a legal prison where prisoners remained totally incommunicado for three years, the only such case under the Argentine dictatorship.  

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2020-12-31

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Reati, F. (2020). The Memory Of/In Objects. Clandestine Handicrafts, Drawings and Embroideries by Political Prisoners at the Cordoba Penitentiary (Argentina, 1976-1979). Kamchatka. Revista De análisis Cultural., (16), 291–318. https://doi.org/10.7203/KAM.16.17343
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