Nelson Reckoning

The Ends of War in Guatemala
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8940-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 448 Seiten

An examination of how Guatemalans are reckoning with the aftermath of a civil war that left fundamental assumptions about selves and others in tatters when it officially ended in 1996.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nelson, Diane M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Pref/face. Little Did I Know xiii

AcKNOWLEDGEmeants xxxiii

Chapter One. Under the Sign of the Virgen de Transito 1

Intertext One. Those who Are Transformed 31

Chapter Two. The Postwar Milieu: Means, Ends, and Identi-ties 39

Intertext Two. Co-memoration and Co-laboration: Screening and Screaming 73

Chapter Three. Horror's Special Effects 86

Intertext Three. Confidence Games 115

Chapter Four. Indian Giver or Nobel Savage?: Rigoberta Menchu Tum's Stoll/en Past 126

Intertext Four. Welcome to Bamboozled! A Modern-Day Minstrel Show 156

Chapter Five. Anthropologist Discovers Legendary Two-Faced Indian 165

Intertext Five. Look Out! Step Right Up! Paranoia and Other Entertainmeants 197

Chapter Six. Hidden Powers, Duplicitous State/s 208

Intertext Six. Counterscience in Colonial Laboratories 242

Chapter Seven. Life during Wartime 252

Intertext Seven. How Do You Get Someone to Give You Her Purse? 280

Chapter Eight. Accounting for the Postwar, Balancing the Book/s 290

Chapter Nine. The Ends 322

Notes 327

Works Cited 361

Index 387

Über Autor(innen)

Diane M. Nelson is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. She is the author of A Finger in the Wound: Body Politics in Quincentennial Guatemala.