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Table of contents :
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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Reckoning The Ends of War in Guatemala

Diane M. Nelson

Reckoning

Reckoning The Ends of War in Guatemala

Diane M. Nelson D u k e U n i v e r s i t y P r e s s   Durham & London 2009

© 2009 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper ♾ Designed by Jennifer Hill Typeset in Chaparral Pro by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book.

To Marcie and Sonya For honoring the past and inspiring the future

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