TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2006//
TI  - Microbus Crashes and Coca-Cola Cash: The Value of Death in "Free-Market" El Salvador
JO  - American ethnologist
A1  - Moodie, Ellen
SP  - 63
EP  - 80
VL  - 33
IS  - 1
N2  - 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, "symptoms of deeper pathologies of power", 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 /> 
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SN  - 0094-0496
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -