by Paz Moreno Feliu · TROTTA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498791181
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This book presents an anthropological reading of the Auschwitz camps, reinterpreting from a holistic perspective the fragmentary knowledge transmitted by the memories of the survivors. It analyzes the day-to-day life in that devastated world and the gray area of social relations that arose in the shadow of the chimneys, including the ethnographic and historical context, the rituals of dehumanization, the political economy of time, the hierarchies and exchanges between prisoners, and the epic legends. These problems are approached not as abstractions about the genocide, but as part of the exceptional daily life suffered by the involuntary participants. The analysis of extreme cases raises relevant theoretical questions about normality, conflicts, and crises, opening a moral question about the omissions of Anthropology in the face of social and cultural catastrophes such as the genocides of the 20th century.
