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Paper cadavers : the archives of dictatorship in Guatemala / Kirsten Weld.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weld, Kirsten, 1982-
- Series:
- American encounters/global interactions.
- American encounters/global interactions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Guatemala. Policía Nacional. Archivo Histórico.
- Guatemala.
- Archives--Political aspects.
- Archives.
- Guatemala--Politics and government--1945-1985--Sources.
- Guatemala--Relations--United States--Sources.
- United States--Relations--Guatemala--Sources.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (352 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 the state of Guatemala.
- Contents:
- Excavating Babylon
- Archival culture, state secrets, and the archive wars
- How the guerrillero became an archivist
- Building counterinsurgency archives
- Recycling the National Police in war, peace, and post-peace
- Revolutionary lives in the archives
- Archives and the next generation(s)
- Changing the law of what can be said, and done
- The possibilities and limitations of archival thinking.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781306494311
- 1306494311
- 9780822376583
- 082237658X
- OCLC:
- 1159384313
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