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Reckoning : The Ends of War in Guatemala /

Following the 1996 treaty ending decades of civil war, how are Guatemalans reckoning with genocide, especially since almost everyone contributed in some way to the violence? Meaning "to count, figure up" and "to settle rewards and punishments," reckoning promises accounting and a...

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Autor principal: Nelson, Diane M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2009]
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Pre/face. Little Did I Know
  • AcKNOWLEDGEmeants
  • Chapter One. Under the Sign of the Virgen de Tránsito
  • Chapter Two. The Postwar Milieu: Means, Ends, and Identi-ties
  • Chapter Three. Horror's Special Effects
  • Chapter Four. Indian Giver or Nobel Savage?: Rigoberta Menchú Tum's Stoll/en Past
  • Chapter Five. Anthropologist Discovers Legendary Two-Faced Indian
  • Chapter Six. Hidden Powers, Duplicitous State/s
  • Chapter Seven. Life during Wartime
  • Chapter Eight. Accounting for the Postwar, Balancing the Book/s
  • Chapter Nine. The Ends
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index