Reckoning : the ends of war in Guatemala / Diane M. Nelson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nelson, Diane M., 1963-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Guatemala--History--Civil War, 1960-1996--Peace.

Guatemala.

Guatemala--History--1985-.

Guatemala--Politics and government--1985-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (444 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Under the sign of the Virgen de Transito

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 Menchu 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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822389408

0822389401

OCLC:

317322300