@article {66921,
	title = {The Mask and the Mirror: Facing up to the Past in Postwar Peru},
	year = {2006},
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	month = {Jan 1, 2006},
	abstract = {In this article Theidon draws upon research conducted with communities in Ayacucho, the region of Peru that bore the greatest loss of life during the internal armed conflict of the 1980-1990s. The fratricidal nature of the conflict means that in any given community,former enemies live side by side. What is it like to live in such a context? What is it like knowing just who one lives with-and living with what oneself has done? As a way of thinking about these questions, Theidon focuses on a figure that appeared incessantly in her conversations: the masked ones. What lies behind the masks that haunt these narratives, particularly in those communities in which the \&quot;masked ones\&quot; were frequently neighbors and family members? Theidon demonstrates that talk about masks, faces, and \&quot;facelessness\&quot; is talk about morality and immorality, and about the challenges of forging co-existence among intimate enemies.},
	author = {Theidon, Kimberly S.}
}
