Genocide is codified by the notion of historical debt and thus becomes cultural heritage, and more precisely the moral heritage of a creditor of debt. The ideological, eminently colonial position, of transforming all extermination into an epiphenomenon of inexorable extinction implies depoliticizing historical violence. In this way, the -always- singular fact of a violence is translated into the plane of a universal equivalence (the plane of the Reason with capital letter) by which Humanity (also with capital letter), like a storekeeper of History, can realize the balance of costs and benefits at the end of the day.
Keywords:
heritage, extermination, genocide, ethnocide
How to Cite
Menard, A. (2017). Extermination as heritage. Revista Chilena De Antropología, (36), 335–343. Retrieved from https://revistadeantropologia.uchile.cl/index.php/RCA/article/view/47498