Reckoning : the ends of war in Guatemala /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nelson, Diane M., 1963-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Table of 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.