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Publications of Diane M Nelson    :chronological  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

  1. D.M. Nelson. Reckoning: The Ends of War in Guatemala. Duke University Press, February, 2009. [PDF[abs] [author's comments]
  2. 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. "“The Power of Sweetness” Commentary." Current Anthropology  vol. 51 no. 5 (October, 2010.).
  2. D.M. Nelson. "“Reckoning the Aftermath of War in Guatemala,”." Anthropological Theory  vol. 10 no. 1-2 (March, 2010.): 87-95.
  3. D.M. Nelson. "“Mayan Ponzi: A Contagion of Hope, a Made-off With Your Money,”." e-misférica, on-line journal of NYU Hemispheric Institute  ( 2009.). [nelson]
  4. 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. [PDF]
  5. D.M. Nelson. "Phantom Limbs and Invisible Hands: Bodies, Prosthetics, and Late Capitalist Identities." Cultural Anthropology  (August, 2001.).
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. D.M. Nelson. "Crucifixion Stories, the l869 Caste War of Chiapas, and Negative Consciousness: A Disruptive Subaltern Study." American Ethnologist  (May, 1997.): 331-354.
  9. 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]

Articles & Book Chapters

  1. D.M. Nelson. "Mayan Pyramids." The Guatemala Reader. Edited by Grandin, Levenson, Oglesby.  ( 2011.).
  2. D.M. Nelson. "“Life During Wartime: Guatemala, Vitality, Conspiracy, Milieu,”." The Anthropologies of Modernity: Foucault, Governmentality, and Life Politics. Edited by Jonathan Xavier Inda.  (2005.).

Book Chapters

  1. D.M. Nelson. "Los efectos especiales del horror." Re-pensando la violencia. Edited by Julian Lopez García and Santiago Bastos.  (2010.). [PDF]

Book Reviews

  1. D.M. Nelson. "Horologists Unite! Take Back the Night (of the Soul) Review." Science Fiction Studies  ( 2010.).
  2. Nancy Hollander. "Love in a Time of Hate: Liberation Psychology in Latin America." American Ethnologist  (February, 2000.).
  3. Judith Zur. "Violent Memories: Mayan War Widows in Guatemala." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute  (forthcoming.).
  4. Linda Green. "Fear as a Way of Life." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute  (forthcoming.).
  5. D.M. Nelson. ""Leftovers," review of Food of the Gods: Eating and the Eaten in Fantasy and Science Fiction." Science Fiction Studies  (Fall, 1998.).
  6. 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.).
  7. D.M. Nelson. "Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism by Elizabeth Grosz." American Anthropologist  (December, 1996.).
  8. 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.).

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