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Paper Cadavers : The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala /

In 2005, human rights investigators stumbled on the archives of Guatemala's National Police. In Paper Cadavers, Kirsten Weld tells the story of the astonishing discovery and rescue of 75 million pages of evidence of state-sponsored crimes, and analyzes the repercussions for both the people and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Weld, Kirsten, 1982- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. The Power of Archival Thinking.
  • Part I. Explosions at the Archives.
  • Excavating Babylon
  • Archival Culture, State Secrets, and the Archive Wars
  • How the Guerrillero Became an Archivist
  • Part II. Archives and Counterinsurgency in Cold War Guatemala.
  • Building Counterinsurgency Archives
  • Recycling the National Police in War, Peace, and Post-Peace
  • Part III. Archives and Social Reconstruction in Postwar Guatemala.
  • Revolutionary Lives in the Archives
  • Archives and the Next Generation(S)
  • Part IV. Pasts Present and the Future Imperfect.
  • Changing the Law of What Can Be Said, and Done
  • Conclusion : The Possibilities and Limitations of Archival Thinking.