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En este texto, se piensa la antropología desde una perspectiva que remite ampliamente al ámbito de la crítica postcolonial de la modernidad. Además de reconocer las asimetrías que dividieron el Norte del Sur a través de los procesos coloniales, y sobre los cuales la antropología se ha consolidado como disciplina, se trata de cuestionar cómo ese legado hoy establece desafíos para que la antropología pueda constituirse como parte de una gramática de resistencia. En este sentido, las "líneas abismales de la modernidad" (Santos, 2009) son convocadas tanto para pensar el impacto de la desmemoria colonial en los procesos sociales y políticos, como para imaginar el lugar de una antropología capaz de movilizar esa memoria a las luchas del presente. ; In this paper we reflect on anthropology from the perspective of the postcolonial critique of modernity. Recognizing the asymmetries that divided North and South through the colonial processes upon which anthropology was established as a discipline. We propose to question how this legacy imposes challenges so that anthropology can be part of resistance grammars. In that view, the "abyssal lines of modernity" (Santos, 2009) are convened both to think the impact of colonial oblivion in contemporary social and political processes, and to imagine the role of an anthropology which aims to mobilize that memory into the struggles of the present.

Neste texto abordo as assimetrias que dividem o Norte do Sul através de uma perspetiva que largamente remete para o âmbito da crítica póscolonial da modernidade. O passado colonial emerge, pois, como período histórico que em muito condiciona e determina as relações de poder no presente. Negando qualquer fatalismo ou determinismo histórico que obscureça as múltiplas possibilidades sempre abertas a cada presente sucessivo, dou centralidade ao modo como as configurações do mundo contemporâneo estão indelevelmente marcadas pelas linhas de desigualdade que se sulcaram na relação colonial.

The Portuguese Colonial was fought between Portugal's military and the nationalist movements in Portugal's African colonies between 1961 and 1974. In spite of its length and social impact, the Colonial War has never been given a space of commemoration in the process of the democratic and post-imperial reconstruction of Portuguese society after 1974. That is why this silence about the war may be described as a constituting element of this process. From various points of view, the disabled war veterans represented the vivid expression of a collective trauma which the democratic social order has wished to forget.

A partir de 1961 tienen lugar las guerras coloniales entre Portugal y los diferentes movimientos de liberación, cuyo objetivo era conseguir la independencia de los territorios africanos que estaban bajo el dominio colonial. La guerra, como último estertor de un Imperio ya anacrónico, se extendió en tres frentes, primero en Angola y después en Guinea y Mozambique. Este articulo analiza las políticas del silencio sobre la guerra y el colonialismo en Portugal, instaladas en una memoria eurocéntrica y sólidamente asentadas, ya sea en una representación imperial, ya sea en los dispositivos de una narrativa eminentemente nacional en la que convergen diferentes imperativos, historias sociales y legados. Se defende que la descentralización crítica de una narrativa benévola sobre las naciones europeas post-imperiales nunca será hecha sin un movimiento que reconozca el protagonismo de los mundos creados a partir de los territorios colonizados. ; In 1974/75, the end of a cycle of armed conflict between the Portuguese state and the African liberation movements would lead to two important changes: in Portugal, the break with the Estado Novo dictatorship; in the former African colonies, the emergence of a set of new nations marked by the anticolonialism. This article proposes to examine the memory of colonial war in Portugal confronting it with a wider colonial history, marked by a memorial selectivity that tends to erase the violent dimension of the process. These «politics of silence» are confronted with the «politics of exaltation» of the national liberation struggles that, from the former colonized territories, were instituting alternative regimes of historicity and memory horizons.

The Portuguese Colonial war was fought between Portugal's military and the nationalist movements in Portugal's African colonies between 1961 and 1974. The conflict opposing the Portuguese Armed Forces to the independency movements in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau is crucial to understand the transition to democracy brought on by the Carnation Revolution. Notwithstanding, a manifest silence of Portuguese society as regards to the Colonial War has subsisted during decades. Through the perspective of disabled war veterans this article attempts to recover crucial testimonies valorization of the Colonial War as a historical moment which has left long-lasting marks on Portuguese society. Moreover, this article aims to explore the impact of Colonial War's disabled soldiers in Portuguese disability policies and politics.

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