Recent public commemorations in the US and El Salvador for the 1932 state-sanctioned killing of thousands of indigenous Nahuat in western El Salvador involve Native communities and diasporic Salvadorans who thereby bring attention to the continued marginalization of Native people and cultures. Salvadorans in the US express personal and collective indi-geneity while contributing to memory and justice efforts in Izalco, the epicenter of the 1932 violence. Multi-sited ethnography illustrates how Native populations and diasporic others, two publics at the margins of the nation-state, engage popular social memory to acknowledge and commemorate a national tragedy in a process that reconfigures and remakes the meaning of national belonging. © 2013 by the Institute for Ethnographic Research (IFER) a part of the George Washington University. All rights reserved.

Este artículo traza algunas ideas fundamentales que pueden orientar la forma de enfocar la memoria colectiva o social de la guerra civil de El Salvador y su conexión con la experiencia y la identidad nacional. Considera los temas de las memorias de grupo, las memorias como discurso, la memoria nacional, la historia versus la memoria, y el papel del silencio y el olvido. Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 153, 2019: 9-21