Paper Cadavers : The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala /

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In Paper Cadavers, an inside account of the astonishing discovery and rescue of Guatemala's secret police archives, Kirsten Weld probes the politics of memory, the wages of the Cold War, and the stakes of historical knowledge production. After Guatemala's bloody thirty-six years of civil w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weld, Kirsten (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2014]
Colección:American encounters/global interactions
Temas:
Archives > Political aspects.
HISTORY / Latin America / Central America.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. The Power of Archival Thinking
  • PART I: EXPLOSIONS AT THE ARCHIVES
  • Chapter 1: Excavating Babylon
  • Chapter 2: Archival Culture, State Secrets, and the Archive Wars
  • Chapter 3: How the Guerrillero Became an Archivist
  • PART II: ARCHIVES AND COUNTERINSURGENCY IN COLD WAR GUATEMALA
  • Chapter 4: Building Counterinsurgency Archives
  • Chapter 5: Recycling the National Police in War, Peace, and Post-Peace
  • PART III: ARCHIVES AND SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTION IN POSTWAR GUATEMALA
  • Chapter 6: Revolutionary Lives in the Archives
  • Chapter 7: Archives and the Next Generation(s)
  • PART IV: PASTS PRESENT AND THE FUTURE IMPERFECT
  • Chapter 8: Changing the Law of What Can Be Said, and Done
  • Chapter 9: Conclusion: The Possibilities and Limitations of Archival Thinking
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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