Reckoning : the ends of war in Guatemala /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Nelson, Diane M., 1963-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2009.
Series:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Subjects:
Since 1960
HISTORY > Latin America > Central America.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Peace
Politics and government
Friedenssicherung
Guatemala > History > Civil War, 1960-1996 > Peace.
Guatemala > History > 1985-
Guatemala > Politics and government > 1985-
Guatemala > Histoire > 1960-1996 (Guerre civile) > Paix.
Guatemala > Histoire > 1985-
Guatemala > Politique et gouvernement > 1985-
Guatemala > Historia > 1960-1996 (Guerra civil) > Paz
Guatemala > Política y gobierno > 1985-
Guatemala
Guatemala > Bürgerkrieg.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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 Menchú 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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