For her work on the more contemporary period, Frazier herself
enters as a participant-observer. She accompanies the Sebastián Acevedo
Movement Against Torture and other human rights and worker actions.
Frazier’s immersion clearly enhances her (and therefore, our) understanding
of the power of collective memory. She conceptually centers on
Chile’s northern frontier. In an instructive example of how memories shift
and are redeployed over the course of a century, Frazier analyzes the
infamous 1907 massacre at the Escuela Santa María of Iquique