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

Author/creator Nelson, Diane M., 1963-
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham : Duke University Press, 2009.
Descriptionxxxvii, 403 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Under the sign of the Virgen de Tránsito -- Intertext 1. Those who are transformed -- The postwar milieu : means, ends, and identi-ties -- 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [361]-386) and index.
LCCN 2008055246
ISBN9780822343417 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN082234341X (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780822343240 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN082234324X (pbk. : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks F 1466.7 .N45 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold