Diane M Nelson

Reckoning

The Ends of War in Guatemala

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9780822343417
• ISBN-10: 082234341X
• Artikelnr.: 25859544

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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