@article{ref1,
title="Microbus Crashes and Coca-Cola Cash: The Value of Death in "Free-Market" El Salvador",
journal="American ethnologist",
year="2006",
author="Moodie, Ellen",
volume="33",
number="1",
pages="63-80",
abstract="In this article, I explore valuation of dead bodies in postwar El Salvador. Taking the view that human-rights violations are, in Paul Farmer's words, &quot;symptoms of deeper pathologies of power&quot;, I start with the seemingly random violence of a fatal bus crash. I then broaden the focus to other categories of suffering undervalued by institutional discourses. The shift in death's meanings comprises a political project undermining the collective agency that sustained revolutionary efforts. The value of death has been (re)privatized and individualized in a way that has extended anguish. These changes in value index links between violence and the position of states and citizens in the world market.<p />",
language="",
issn="0094-0496",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}