Reckoning
Subtitle: the ends of war in Guatemala
By: Diane M. Nelson.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham [NC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 403
ISBN-13: 9780822343417; 9780822343240
Subjects: Guatemala -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1996 -- Peace; Guatemala -- History -- 1985-; Guatemala -- Politics and government -- 1985-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Under the sign of the Virgen de Tránsito; title: Intertext 1. Those who are transformed; title: The postwar milieu : means, ends, and identities; title: Intertext 2. Co-memoration and co-laboration : screening and screaming; title: Horror's special effects; title: Intertext 3. Confidence games; title: Indian giver or nobel savage? : Rigoberta Menchú Tum's stoll/en past; title: Intertext 4. Welcome to bamboozled! : a modern-day minstrel show; title: Anthropologist discovers legendary two-faced Indian; title: Intertext 5. Look out! Step right up! :  paranoia and other entertainmeants; title: Hidden powers, duplicitous state/s; title: Intertext 6. Counterscience in colonial laboratories; title: Life during wartime; title: Intertext 7. How do you get someone to give you her purse?; title: Accounting for the postwar, balancing the book/s; title: The ends.