Books

1. D.M. Nelson and Carlota McAllister. Revisiting Guatemala's Harvest of Violence. Duke University Press, 2010.  [author's comments]
2. D.M. Nelson. Reckoning: The Ends of War in Guatemala. Duke University Press, February, 2009.  [abs]
3. D.M. Nelson. Un Dedo en la Llaga: Politicas Corporales en Guatemala Quintocentenario. Guatemala City: Cholsamaj, December, 2006. (Spanish-language version of A Finger in the Wound)
4. D.M. Nelson. A Finger in the Wound: Body Politics in Quincenntenial Guatemala. University of California Press, 1999.  [abs]

Published Articles

1. D.M. Nelson. ""Anthropologist Discovers Legendary Two-Faced Indian in Guatemala! Margins and the Bamboozling of the State/s"." The State and Its Margins: Ethnographies from South Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Edited by Deborah Poole and Veena Das.  (forthcoming.).
2. D.M. Nelson. "A Social Science Fiction of Fevers, Delirium and Discovery: The Calcutta Chromosome, the Colonial Laboratory, and the Postcolonial New Human." Science Fiction Studies  vol. 30 no. 2 (July, 2003.): 246-266.
3. D.M. Nelson. "Stumped Identities: Body Image, Bodies Politic, and the Mujer Maya as Prosthetic." Cultural Anthropology  vol. 16 no. 3 (August, 2001.): 314-353.
4. D.M. Nelson. "Phantom Limbs and Invisible Hands: Bodies, Prosthetics, and Late Capitalist Identities." Cultural Anthropology  (August, 2001.).
5. D.M. Nelson. "Indian Giver or Nobel Savage: Duping, Assumptions of Identity and Other Double Entendres in Rigoberta Mench Tum's Stoll/en Past." American Ethnologist  vol. 28 no. 2 (May, 2001.): 303-331.
6. D.M. Nelson. "Perpetual Creation and Decomposition: Bodies, Gender, and Desire in the Assumption/s of a Guatemalan Discourse of Mestizaje." Journal of Latin American Anthropology  ( 1999.): 74-111.
7. D.M. Nelson. "Crucifixion Stories, the l869 Caste War of Chiapas, and Negative Consciousness: A Disruptive Subaltern Study." American Ethnologist  (May, 1997.): 331-354.
8. D.M. Nelson. "Maya-Hackers and the Cyberspatialized Nation-State: Modernity, Ethnostalgia, and a Lizard Queen in Guatemala." Cultural Anthropology  (May, 1996.): 287-308. [pdf]

Book Chapters

1. D.M. Nelson. "100% OMNILIFE: Health, Economy, and the End/s of War." Revisiting the Harvest of Violence. Edited by McAllister, Carlot and Diane M. Nelson.  (2010.).
2. D.M. Nelson. "Los efectos especiales del horror." Re-pensando la violencia. Edited by Julian Lopez García and Santiago Bastos.  (2009.).
3. D.M. Nelson. "Dispossession and Possession: The Maya, Identi/ties, and "Post" War Guatemala." Identity Conflicts: Can Violence Be Regulated?. Edited by Craig Jenkins and Esther Gottlieb.  (2007.).
4. D.M. Nelson. ""La mujer maya y las identidades heridas: nación, etnicidad, género y prótesis" [The Mayan Woman and Wounded Identities: Nation, Ethnicity, Gender, and Prosthesis]." En el umbral: Explorando Guatemala en el inicio del siglo veintiuno (At the Threshold: Exploring Guatemala in the 21st Century. Edited by Clara Arenas Bianchi.  ( 2007.): 377-432.
5. D.M. Nelson. "Anthropologist Discovers Legendary Two Faced Indian! Margins, the State, and Duplicity in Postwar Guatemala." Anthropology in the Margins of the State. Edited by Veena Das and Deborah Poole.  (2004.).
6. D.M. Nelson. ""The More You Kill the More You Will Live:" The Maya, "Race," and the Biopolitical Economy of Peace in Guatemala"." Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference. Edited by Donald Moore.  ( 2003.).

Book Reviews

1. D.M. Nelson. "Review of Latin American Cyberculture and Cyberliterature." The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology  (2009.).
2. D.M. Nelson. "“Spiderwebs of Value and Interest:” Human-Rights-in-Action and the Problem of the Clean Victim,” review of To Save Her Life: Disappearance Deliverance, and the United States in Guatemala." Current Anthropology  (2009.).
3. D.M. Nelson. "Review of E.T. Culture: Anthropology in Outerspaces." Science Fiction Studies  ( 2008.).
4. D.M. Nelson. "Intercultural Utopias: Public Intellectuals, Cultural Experimentation, and Ethnic Pluralism in Colombia." Journal of Anthropological Research  vol. 62 ( 2006.): 586-588.
5. D.M. Nelson. "Chiapas: Ombligo del Mundo/ Navel of the Neoliberal Militarized World." Reviews in Anthropology. Edited by Lourdes Giordano.  vol. 34 no. 10 (2005.): 271-293.
6. D.M. Nelson. "A Queer Mother for the Nation. By Licia Fiol-Matta." American Ethnologist  ( 2005.).
7. Nancy Hollander. "Love in a Time of Hate: Liberation Psychology in Latin America." American Ethnologist  (February, 2000.).
8. Judith Zur. "Violent Memories: Mayan War Widows in Guatemala." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute  (forthcoming.).
9. Linda Green. "Fear as a Way of Life." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute  (forthcoming.).
10. D.M. Nelson. ""Leftovers," review of Food of the Gods: Eating and the Eaten in Fantasy and Science Fiction." Science Fiction Studies  (Fall, 1998.).
11. D.M. Nelson. "The Horror:’ The Subject of Desire in Post-Colonial Theory.” Review of Imperial Leather by Anne McClintock, Colonial Desire by Robert Young, and Race and the Education of Desire by Ann Stoler." American Anthropologist  (June, 1997.).
12. D.M. Nelson. "Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism by Elizabeth Grosz." American Anthropologist  (December, 1996.).
13. D.M. Nelson. "Skin of the Soul: Women Writing Horror by Lisa Tuttle." Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Review Annual l99l.  (1995.).

Papers Accepted

1. D.M. Nelson. ""I Want...to Look Like You: Mestizaje and Raciology in the Global Exchange of Glances"." Key Issues in Latin American Anthropology: social movements, mestizaje, globalisation, and the politics of ethnography. Edited by Miguel Diaz-Barriga.  (forthcoming.).
2. D.M. Nelson. "Horror's Special Effects: Co-Laboration and the Popular in Guatemala's Peace-Rendering Process." Publicizing the Popular, Popularizing the Public. Edited by Jeff Himpele and Rob Albro.  (forthcoming.).

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