Salt in the Sand: Memory, Violence, and the Nation-State in Chile, 1890 to the PresentSalt in the Sand is a compelling historical ethnography of the interplay between memory and state violence in the formation of the Chilean nation state. The historian and anthropologist Lessie Jo Frazier focuses on northern Chile, which figures prominently in the nation's history as a site of military glory during the period of national conquest, of labor strikes and massacres in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, and of state detention