Reckoning

by Nelson, Diane M.

• ISBN13: 9780822343417
• ISBN10: 082234341X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-02-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"The struggle to understand violence is a consuming task for many around the globe. Diane M. Nelson articulates stunning insights into the problem of understanding the violence in Guatemala and, by extension, our whole world of war and structural harm."--Catherine A. Lutz, editor of "The Bases of Empire: The Global Struggle against U.S. Military Posts"

Table of Contents

Pre/face. Little Did I Know	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xxxiii
Under the Sign of the Virgen de Transito	p. 1
Those Who Are Transformed	p. 31
The Postwar Milieu: Means, Ends, and Identi-ties	p. 39
Co-memoration and Co-laboration: Screening and Screaming	p. 73
Horror's Special Effects	p. 86
Confidence Games	p. 115
Indian Giver or Nobel Savage?: Rigoberta Menchu Tum's Stoll/en Past	p. 126
Welcome to Bamboozled! A Modern-Day Minstrel Show	p. 156
Anthropologist Discovers Legendary Two-Faced Indian	p. 164
Look Out! Step Right Up! Paranoia and Other Entertainments	p. 197
Hidden Powers, Duplicitous State/s	p. 208
Counterscience in Colonial Laboratories	p. 242
Life during Wartime	p. 252
How Do You Get Someone to Give You Her Purse?	p. 280
Accounting for the Postwar, Balancing the Book/s	p. 290
The Ends	p. 322
Notes	p. 327
Works Cited	p. 361
Index	p. 387
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