@article{b0f362709c014705ad0d5882c7c4fe24,
title = "Death, doubt, truth and charisma: Exhumations, enigmas and manipulations surrounding the deaths of Salvador Allende and Eduardo Frei Montalva",
abstract = "This essay explores what has been an undertheorized link between forensic investigations and the sociological concept of charisma. To do so, we examine the deaths of two illustrious men: former Chilean presidents Salvador Allende and Eduardo Frei Montalva. Our interest is not to elucidate the causes of their deaths from a medical or legal point of view, but rather to understand what is constitutive of the investiture of political power. Based on the notion of charisma and the sentiments produced by forensic investigations, this article explores those non-visible elements that emanate from charisma as a concept, vested in the dead leaders{\textquoteright} remains.",
keywords = "charisma, doubt, exhumations, forensic truth, policide",
author = "Alfredo Joignant and Mauro Basaure and Manuel G{\'a}rate",
note = "Funding Information: We would like to thank Javiera Letelier and Emilio Ugarte for their decisive contribution in searching and using the press archives that form the documentary base of this paper, and Raimundo Frei for his useful comments. Mauro Basaure would also like to thank Hans Joas for his invitation to take up a research residency at Humboldt University in the framework of the Ernst-Troeltsch-Honorarprofessur scholarship during the co-writing of the paper. The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This paper received financing from Fondecyt projects 1150790 and 1191490, and also forms part of the ANID/FONDAP/15130009 project.",
year = "2020",
month = jun,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1177/1750698020915397",
language = "English",
volume = "13",
pages = "295--312",
journal = "Memory Studies",
issn = "1750-6980",
publisher = "SAGE Publications Ltd",
number = "3",
}