Art Against Dictatorship: Making and Exporting Arpilleras Under Pinochet

Acknowledgments

I am very grateful to the arpilleristas, the members of the Vicaría who worked with the arpilleristas, the Chilean exiles, and the human rights activists outside Chile who kindly granted me interviews. I would like to give very special thanks to Juanita Carrión, Ada Ocaranza, Sara Mena, and Estrella Abriga for their tremendous help in the field and for the care and friendship they showed me. I am also appreciative of the help of the Villa Sur group, the Paraméntica group, Gustavo’s group, the members of the Conjunto Folclórico of the Agrupación de Familiares de Detenidos-Desaparecidos in Santiago, and the Bordadoras Lomas de Macul, with whom I spent many hours. I am very appreciative of the help and kindness of Alicia Salazar, Toya Díaz, Violeta Morales, Anita Rojas, Doris Meniconi, Inelia Hermosilla, and Yolanda Osorio; sadly, the last five of these extraordinary women have passed away. Thank you also to Valentina Bonne and Gustavo at Prisma de los Andes, Benita Villanueva, Aída Moreno, Viviana Díaz, and the professionals at FASIC, PIDEE, CODEPU, SERPAJ, CINTRAS, MEMCH, Tierra Nuestra, and FLACSO. I was assisted in the work of transcribing by social science students, including Paula Asún and Osvaldo Bañuelos, to whom I am grateful. I wish to express my gratitude to the staff of the Vicaría’s archive in Santiago, the Fundación Documentación y Archivo de la Vicaría de la Solidaridad, who gave me access to primary and secondary sources in visual and textual form and allowed me to photograph their albums and arpilleras. I am also very grateful to the staff of the Interlibrary Loan Service at the University of California at Berkeley, who brought from libraries in the United States and abroad the many documents and books that I requested. I benefited greatly from and thoroughly enjoyed the very stimulating intellectual environment at the Beatrice Bain Acknowledgments xii Art Against Dictatorship Research Group on Gender, the Center for Latin American Studies, and the History Department at the University of California at Berkeley, and in this regard would like to thank in particular Paola Bacchetta, Margaret Chowning, Mark Healey, and Harley Shaiken. Also while at Berkeley, I had the pleasure of training the following students in research methods, all of whom lent valuable assistance to the latter stages of producing the book: Meghan Lowe, Sarit Platkin, Dejanira Cruz, Beatrice Lau, Bram Draper, Priscilla Rodgers, Tamara Wattnem, Dennie Bates, and Jane Magee. At an earlier stage of the research I was at the University of Washington’s Department of Sociology, to whose staff and students I am appreciative for their support and friendship. I am deeply grateful to Howard Saul Becker at the University of Washington and Colin Samson at the University of Essex, who gave me guidance with all aspects of the research when it was in its earliest stage as a dissertation project. The question the dissertation addressed was different from that of this book, but there is overlap in the dataset, and the many skills I learned with them about data gathering, analysis, and writing were invaluable throughout. Howie’s hospitality when I was “fresh off the boat” in the United States and his generosity in acting as a mentor in ensuing years have made a deep impression on me, and I wish to express my heartfelt thanks to him. I also wish to express my gratitude to my colleagues and friends Kathryn Poethig, Ellen FernandezSacco , Michele Pridmore-Brown, Elly Teman, and Natascha Gruber, who read parts of the manuscript and offered helpful comments and delightful conviviality . Thank you also to the anonymous reviewers of my book, and to Theresa May, its editor, and her staff. To my family, who has been wonderfully supportive, I am very grateful. My parents, María Angélica Adams and Paul Henry Adams, encouraged and supported me in many ways, and my aunt Pilar Moreno Saez and great-aunts Irene Moreno Wilson and Anita Morandé Fabres were most hospitable and affectionate. Thank you also to my friends Raúl Herreros, Esteban Cox, Bill Peria, Kaela Warren, Rebecca McLain, and Jim Preiss, with me while I was conducting fieldwork and writing, and to my husband, for whose intellectual and emotional partnership I am profoundly grateful. Art Against Dictatorship THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK ...