An ethnographic and theoretical analysis of the complexity of identity in post-war Guatemala through a dynamic examination of the state, the Rigoberta Menchu scandal, carnival side-show exhibits, and the popularity of violent horror films.
An ethnographic and theoretical analysis of the complexity of identity in post-war Guatemala through a dynamic examination of the state, the Rigoberta Menchu scandal, carnival side-show exhibits, and the popularity of violent horror films.
Diane M. Nelson is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. She is the author of A Finger in the Wound: Body Politics in Quincentennial Guatemala.
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Pref/face. Little Did I Know xiii AcKNOWLEDGEmeants xxxiii Chapter One. Under the Sign of the Virgen de Transito 1 Intertext One. Those who Are Transformed 31 Chapter Two. The Postwar Milieu: Means, Ends, and Identi-ties 39 Intertext Two. Co-memoration and Co-laboration: Screening and Screaming 73 Chapter Three. Horror's Special Effects 86 Intertext Three. Confidence Games 115 Chapter Four. Indian Giver or Nobel Savage?: Rigoberta Menchu Tum's Stoll/en Past 126 Intertext Four. Welcome to Bamboozled! A Modern-Day Minstrel Show 156 Chapter Five. Anthropologist Discovers Legendary Two-Faced Indian 165 Intertext Five. Look Out! Step Right Up! Paranoia and Other Entertainmeants 197 Chapter Six. Hidden Powers, Duplicitous State/s 208 Intertext Six. Counterscience in Colonial Laboratories 242 Chapter Seven. Life during Wartime 252 Intertext Seven. How Do You Get Someone to Give You Her Purse? 280 Chapter Eight. Accounting for the Postwar, Balancing the Book/s 290 Chapter Nine. The Ends 322 Notes 327 Works Cited 361 Index 387
Pref/face. Little Did I Know xiii AcKNOWLEDGEmeants xxxiii Chapter One. Under the Sign of the Virgen de Transito 1 Intertext One. Those who Are Transformed 31 Chapter Two. The Postwar Milieu: Means, Ends, and Identi-ties 39 Intertext Two. Co-memoration and Co-laboration: Screening and Screaming 73 Chapter Three. Horror's Special Effects 86 Intertext Three. Confidence Games 115 Chapter Four. Indian Giver or Nobel Savage?: Rigoberta Menchu Tum's Stoll/en Past 126 Intertext Four. Welcome to Bamboozled! A Modern-Day Minstrel Show 156 Chapter Five. Anthropologist Discovers Legendary Two-Faced Indian 165 Intertext Five. Look Out! Step Right Up! Paranoia and Other Entertainmeants 197 Chapter Six. Hidden Powers, Duplicitous State/s 208 Intertext Six. Counterscience in Colonial Laboratories 242 Chapter Seven. Life during Wartime 252 Intertext Seven. How Do You Get Someone to Give You Her Purse? 280 Chapter Eight. Accounting for the Postwar, Balancing the Book/s 290 Chapter Nine. The Ends 322 Notes 327 Works Cited 361 Index 387
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