Nelson, Diane M., 1963-

Reckoning : the ends of war in Guatemala / Ends of war in Guatemala Diane M. Nelson. - Durham, NC; London: Duke University Press, 2009. - xxxvii, 403 p. : ill., photogh.; 23cm. - Latin America / Anthropology .

Includes bibliographical references (p.[327]-359) and index

Under the sign of the Virgen de Tránsito -- Intertext 1. Those who are transformed -- The postwar milieu : means, ends, and identities -- Intertext 2. Co-memoration and co-laboration : screening and screaming -- Horror's special effects -- Intertext 3. Confidence games -- Indian giver or nobel savage? : Rigoberta Menchâu Tum's stoll/en past -- Intertext 4. Welcome to bamboozled! : a modern-day minstrel show -- Anthropologist discovers legendary two-faced Indian -- Intertext 5. Look out! Step right up! : paranoia and other entertainmeants -- Hidden powers, duplicitous state/s -- Intertext 6. Counterscience in colonial laboratories -- Life during wartime -- Intertext 7. How do you get someone to give you her purse? -- Accounting for the postwar, balancing the book/s -- The ends.


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Guatemala--History--Peace.--Civil War, 1960-1996
Guatemala--History--1985-
Guatemala--Politics and government--1985-
Guatemala--Historia--Paz--Guerra Civil, 1960-1996
Guatemala--Historia--1985
Guatemala--Política y gobierno--1985


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