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Nelson :recent first alphabetical by type listing:%% @article{fds290804, Author = {Nelson, D}, Title = {"The Reconstruction of Mayan Identity"}, Year = {1991}, Month = {December}, Key = {fds290804} } @article{fds290805, Author = {Nelson, D}, Title = {Letter from the Field: From Inside the Guatemalan Coup}, Journal = {Stanford Anthropology Newsletter}, Year = {1994}, Month = {November}, Key = {fds290805} } @article{fds290790, Author = {Nelson, DM}, Title = {Skin of the Soul: Women Writing Horror by Lisa Tuttle}, Journal = {Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Review Annual L99l.}, Year = {1995}, Key = {fds290790} } @article{fds290806, Author = {Nelson, D}, Title = {"Gringas, Baby Snatching, and "Partial" Anthropology in Guatemala"}, Journal = {Anthropology Newsletter: Recent Developments}, Volume = {36}, Number = {5}, Year = {1995}, Month = {May}, Key = {fds290806} } @article{fds290819, Author = {Nelson, DM}, Title = {Maya-Hackers and the Cyberspatialized Nation-State: Modernity, Ethnostalgia, and a Lizard Queen in Guatemala}, Journal = {Cultural Anthropology}, Volume = {11}, Number = {3}, Pages = {287-308}, Publisher = {WILEY}, Year = {1996}, Month = {May}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10161/6970 Duke open access}, Doi = {10.1525/can.1996.11.3.02a00010}, Key = {fds290819} } @article{fds290791, Author = {Nelson, DM}, Title = {Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism by Elizabeth Grosz}, Journal = {American Anthropologist}, Year = {1996}, Month = {December}, Key = {fds290791} } @article{fds290807, Author = {Nelson, D}, Title = {"Los Maya-hackers"}, Journal = {Proceedings From the First Maya Studies Conference}, Publisher = {Guatemala City: Cholsamah Publishing}, Year = {1997}, Key = {fds290807} } @article{fds290824, Author = {Nelson, DM}, Title = {Crucifixion Stories, the l869 Caste War of Chiapas, and Negative Consciousness: A Disruptive Subaltern Study}, Journal = {American Ethnologist}, Volume = {24}, Number = {2}, Pages = {331-354}, Publisher = {WILEY}, Year = {1997}, Month = {May}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ae.1997.24.2.331}, Abstract = {In this article I apply the methodology of the Subaltern Studies group, especially Ranajit Guha's theory of negative consciousness, to an instance of indigenous insurgency in Mesoamerica. During the Caste War of Chiapas, 1867-69, the Maya apparently crucified a boy and, emboldened by this "Indian Christ," they swept out of the hills killing non-Indians indiscriminately. I argue not only that Guha's "elementary aspects of peasant insurgency" (1983) aid in understanding the ferocious mimesis of the Mayan crucifixion, but also that the Caste War has a disruptive history that challenges theories of resistance as well as the relation of the historian and the ethnographer to the subaltern and to the "colonizer" subject.}, Doi = {10.1525/ae.1997.24.2.331}, Key = {fds290824} } @article{fds290792, Author = {Nelson, DM}, Title = {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}, Journal = {American Anthropologist}, Year = {1997}, Month = {June}, Key = {fds290792} } @article{fds290793, Author = {Nelson, DM}, Title = {"Leftovers," review of Food of the Gods: Eating and the Eaten in Fantasy and Science Fiction}, Journal = {Science Fiction Studies}, Year = {1998}, Month = {Fall}, Key = {fds290793} } @article{fds290808, Author = {Nelson, D}, Title = {"Rigoberta Menchú: Is Truth Stranger than Testimonial?"}, Journal = {Guatemala Scholars Network News}, Year = {1999}, Key = {fds290808} } @book{fds290810, Author = {Nelson, DM}, Title = {A Finger in the Wound: Body Politics in Quincenntenial Guatemala}, Publisher = {University of California Press}, Year = {1999}, Abstract = {http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/8109.html}, Key = {fds290810} } @article{fds290823, Author = {Nelson, DM}, Title = {Perpetual Creation and Decomposition: Bodies, Gender, and Desire in the Assumption/s of a Guatemalan Discourse of Mestizaje}, Journal = {Journal of Latin American Anthropology}, Pages = {74-111}, Year = {1999}, Key = {fds290823} } @article{fds290794, Author = {Nelson, DM}, Title = {Review of Violent Memories: Mayan War Widows in Guatemala, by Judith Zur and Fear as a Way of Life, by Linda Green}, Journal = {Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute}, Volume = {6}, Number = {4}, Pages = {757-758}, Publisher = {Great Britain}, Year = {2000}, Key = {fds290794} } @article{fds13639, Author = {Judith Zur}, Title = {Violent Memories: Mayan War Widows in Guatemala}, Journal = {Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute}, Publisher = {Great Britain}, Year = {2000}, Key = {fds13639} } @article{fds13640, Author = {Linda Green}, Title = {Fear as a Way of Life}, Journal = {Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute}, Publisher = {Great Britain}, Year = {2000}, Key = {fds13640} } @article{fds13641, Author = {Nancy Hollander}, Title = {Love in a Time of Hate: Liberation Psychology in Latin America}, Journal = {American Ethnologist}, Year = {2000}, Month = {February}, Key = {fds13641} } @article{fds290795, Author = {Nelson, DM}, Title = {Review of Love in a Time of Hate: Liberation Psychology in Latin America by Nancy Hollander}, Journal = {American Ethnologist}, Pages = {179-181}, Year = {2000}, Month = {February}, Key = {fds290795} } @article{fds290825, Author = {Nelson, DM}, Title = {Indian Giver or Nobel Savage: Duping, Assumptions of Identity and Other Double Entendres in Rigoberta Mench Tum's Stoll/en Past}, Journal = {American Ethnologist}, Volume = {28}, Number = {2}, Pages = {303-331}, Publisher = {WILEY}, Year = {2001}, Month = {May}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ae.2001.28.2.303}, Abstract = {I address the emotional debate over David Stoll's claims that parts of Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchú Tum's testimonial are untrue. Rather than arguing for or against either "side," I negotiate the double entendre of "Indian giver" and the assumptions that structure the arguments that make up the debate. I track how such assumptions of identity involve a detour through gendered, ethnic, and transnational difference. Transactions such as gifting, joking, and stereotyping are ecstatic and pleasurable, and vacillate with threatening to suggest that the vacillation itself, the exchange, is essential to identification and that the empiricist promise of being "nonduped" is an error.}, Doi = {10.1525/ae.2001.28.2.303}, Key = {fds290825} } @article{fds290820, Author = {Nelson, DM}, Title = {Stumped Identities: Body Image, Bodies Politic, and the Mujer Maya as Prosthetic}, Journal = {Cultural Anthropology}, Volume = {16}, Number = {3}, Pages = {314-353}, Publisher = {WILEY}, Year = {2001}, Month = {August}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10161/6933 Duke open access}, Doi = {10.1525/can.2001.16.3.314}, Key = {fds290820} } @article{fds290822, Author = {Nelson, DM}, Title = {Phantom Limbs and Invisible Hands: Bodies, Prosthetics, and Late Capitalist Identities}, Journal = {Cultural Anthropology}, Year = {2001}, Month = {August}, Key = {fds290822} } @article{fds290799, Author = {Nelson, DM}, Title = {’Relating to Terror: Gender, Anthropology, Law and Some September Elevenths"}, Journal = {Gender, Law, and Public Policy. Special Issue}, Pages = {24-24}, Year = {2002}, Key = {fds290799} } @article{fds320868, Author = {Nelson, DM}, Title = {A social science fiction of fevers, delirium and discovery: The Calcutta Chromosome, the colonial laboratory, and the postcolonial new human}, Journal = {Science Fiction Studies}, Volume = {30}, Number = {2}, Pages = {246-266}, Year = {2003}, Month = {December}, Abstract = {Using critical studes of technology, medicine, and empire to analyze Europe's colonies as laboratories of modernity where both work (labor) and slippage (labi) occur, this essay explores the phenomenon of social science fiction by examining the novel The Calcutta Chromosome, written by social scientist Amitav Ghosh. The Calcutta Chromosome is a mystery thriller in the guise of sf and alternative history that explores a range of human/technology interfaces, from railroads, computers, and bureaucracies to genetic engineering and the mysterious workings of the malaria plasmodium. The eponymous chromosome is a form of transmission that shapes the human through books, whispered secrets, and email messages as surely as through genetic transfers, disease vectors, and medical contagion. The essay follows Ghosh in linking malaria (which is less a disease than a classic network of actants) with colonial tropes (ways of knowing) and troops (the militarized aspects of science) in order to imagine a new human entity arising from the "counterscience" devised in such laboratories.}, Key = {fds320868} } @misc{fds290782, Author = {Nelson, DM}, Title = {The Cultural Agency of Wounded Bodies Politic: Ethnicity and Gender as Prosthetic Support in Post-War Guatemala}, Pages = {28-28}, Booktitle = {Cultural Agency in the Americas}, Publisher = {Duke University Press}, Editor = {Sommer, D}, Year = {2005}, Key = {fds290782} } @misc{fds290783, Author = {Nelson, DM}, Title = {Life During Wartime: Guatemala, Vitality, Conspiracy, Milieu}, Pages = {34 pages}, Booktitle = {The Anthropologies of Modernity: Foucault, Governmentality, and Life Politics}, Publisher = {Blackwell Press}, Editor = {Inda, JX}, Year = {2005}, Key = {fds290783} } @article{fds290788, Author = {Nelson, D}, Title = {"Tengo dos caras:" El estado, duplicidad y las trans/acciones de la identificaión" ["I have Two Faces:" The State, Duplicity, and the Trans/Actions of Identification]}, Journal = {Proceedings From the Biannual Maya Studies Conference}, Publisher = {Guatemala City: Universidad Rafaél Landivar PRess}, Year = {2005}, Key = {fds290788} } @article{fds290789, Author = {Nelson, DM}, Title = {"I Want...to Look Like You: Mestizaje and Raciology in the Global Exchange of Glances"}, Journal = {Key Issues in Latin American Anthropology: Social Movements, Mestizaje, Globalisation, and the Politics of Ethnography}, Editor = {Diaz-Barriga, M}, Year = {2005}, Key = {fds290789} } @article{fds174057, Author = {D.M. Nelson}, Title = {“Life During Wartime: Guatemala, Vitality, Conspiracy, Milieu,”}, Booktitle = {The Anthropologies of Modernity: Foucault, Governmentality, and Life Politics}, Publisher = {Blackwell Press}, Editor = {Jonathan Xavier Inda}, Year = {2005}, Key = {fds174057} } @article{fds290821, Author = {Nelson, DM}, Title = {“Mayan Ponzi: A Contagion of Hope, a Made-off With Your Money,”}, Journal = {E Misférica, on Line Journal of Nyu Hemispheric Institute}, Year = {2009}, url = {http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/e-misferica-61/nelson}, Key = {fds290821} } @book{fds323611, Author = {Nelson, DM}, Title = {Under the sign of the Virgen de Tránsito}, Pages = {1-28}, Publisher = {Duke University Press}, Year = {2009}, Month = {January}, Abstract = {Following the 1996 treaty ending decades of civil war, how are Guatemalans reckoning with genocide, especially since almost everyone contributed in some way to the violence? Meaning "to count, figure up" and "to settle rewards and punishments," reckoning promises accounting and accountability. Yet as Diane M. Nelson shows, the means by which the war was waged, especially as they related to race and gender, unsettled the very premises of knowing and being. Symptomatic are the stories of duplicity pervasive in postwar Guatemala, as the left, the Mayan people, and the state were each said to have "two faces." Drawing on more than twenty years of research in Guatemala, Nelson explores how postwar struggles to reckon with traumatic experience illuminate the assumptions of identity more generally. Nelson brings together stories of human rights activism, Mayan identity struggles, coerced participation in massacres, and popular entertainment-including traditional dances, horror films, and carnivals-with analyses of mass-grave exhumations, official apologies, and reparations. She discusses the stereotype of the Two-Faced Indian as colonial discourse revivified by anti-guerrilla counterinsurgency and by the claims of duplicity leveled against the Nobel laureate Rigoberta Menchú, and she explores how duplicity may in turn function as a survival strategy for some. Nelson examines suspicions that state power is also two-faced, from the left's fears of a clandestine para-state behind the democratic façade, to the right's conviction that NGOs threaten Guatemalan sovereignty. Her comparison of antimalaria and antisubversive campaigns suggests biopolitical ways that the state is two-faced, simultaneously giving and taking life. Reckoning is a view from the ground up of how Guatemalans are finding creative ways forward, turning ledger books, technoscience, and even gory horror movies into tools for making sense of violence, loss, and the future.}, Key = {fds323611} } @book{fds290811, Author = {Nelson, DM}, Title = {Reckoning: The Ends of War in Guatemala}, Publisher = {Duke University Press}, Year = {2009}, Month = {February}, Abstract = {Following the 1996 treaty ending decades of civil war, how are Guatemalans reckoning with genocide and with the fact that almost everyone collaborated in some way with the violence? Meaning “to count, figure up” and “to settle rewards and punishments,” reckoning promises accounting and accountability. Yet Diane Nelson shows that the means by which the war was waged, especially its raced and gendered modes, unsettle the very premises of knowing and being. Symptomatic are the stories of duplicity and living with “two faces” pervasive in post-war Guatemala and applied to the left, Mayan people, and the state. Drawing on over twenty years of research in Guatemala, Nelson explores how postwar struggles to reckon traumatic experience illuminate the assumptions of identity more generally. Nelson lashes together stories of human rights activism, Mayan identity struggles, forced-voluntary participation in massacres, and popular enjoyments like traditional dances, horror films, and carnivals, with exhumations of mass graves, official apologies, and reparations. She discusses the stereotype of the Two-Faced Indian as colonial discourse revivified by anti-guerrilla counterinsurgency and by the claims of duplicity leveled against Nobel laureate Rigoberta Menchú, as well as functioning as a survival strategy for some. Nelson examines suspicions that state power is also two-faced, from the left’s fears of a clandestine para-state behind the democratic façade to the right’s conviction that NGOs threaten Guatemalan sovereignty. Comparing anti-malaria and anti-subversive campaigns suggests biopolitical ways the state is two-faced, simultaneously taking and giving life. Emphasizing that the ends of war are always sites of struggle, Nelson offers a ground-up take on political transition as Guatemalans find creative ways forward, turning ledger books, technoscience, and even gory popular culture into tools for making sense of violence, loss, and the future.}, Key = {fds290811} } @misc{fds290784, Author = {Nelson, DM}, Title = {Los efectos especiales del horror}, Booktitle = {Re-pensando la violencia}, Publisher = {University of Cordoba, Spain}, Editor = {García, JL and Bastos, S}, Year = {2010}, Key = {fds290784} } @article{fds290796, Author = {Nelson, DM}, Title = {Horologists Unite! Take Back the Night (of the Soul) Review}, Journal = {Science Fiction Studies}, Year = {2010}, Key = {fds290796} } @misc{fds290813, Author = {Nelson, DM}, Title = {Los Efectos Especialdes de los "Mecanismos del Horror"}, Pages = {153-183}, Booktitle = {Guatemala, Violencias Desbordadas}, Publisher = {Universidad de Cordoba}, Editor = {Garcia, Julian Lopez and Bastos, Santiago and Camus, Manuela}, Year = {2010}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10161/7428 Duke open access}, Key = {fds290813} } @article{fds290818, Author = {Nelson, DM}, Title = {Reckoning the after/math of war in Guatemala}, Journal = {Anthropological Theory}, Volume = {10}, Number = {1-2}, Pages = {87-95}, Publisher = {SAGE Publications}, Year = {2010}, Month = {March}, ISSN = {1463-4996}, url = {http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000278481400008&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=47d3190e77e5a3a53558812f597b0b92}, Abstract = {Working from multiple meanings of reckoning (to count, to settle rewards or penalties, to pay a bill, to measure possibilities for the future), this essay explores the post-war in Guatemala and the work of, and struggles over, number in making different people and experiences count. The peace treaty signed in 1996 instituted a truth commission and efforts to bring justice to the victims. The commission's quantifications of 250,000 dead, 93 percent at the hands of the state, mix in complex ways with the qualitative judgment that those deaths constitute genocide, leading to further quandaries in quantifying forms of repair. The state has begun paying reparations to survivors, but is also compensating civilians who were drafted into para-militaries that carried out massacres. How these para-victimizers count in relation to the aggregate of victims is, in turn, hard to calculate, and I look at some ways Guatemalans are working to make it all add up. Copyright © 2010 SAGE Publications.}, Doi = {10.1177/1463499610365374}, Key = {fds290818} } @article{fds320867, Author = {Guyer, JI and Khan, N and Obarrio, J and Bledsoe, C and Chu, J and Bachir Diagne, S and Hart, K and Kockelman, P and Lave, J and McLoughlin, C and Maurer, B and Neiburg, F and Nelson, D and Stafford, C and Verran, H}, Title = {Anthropological Theory: Introduction}, Journal = {Anthropological Theory}, Volume = {10}, Number = {1-2}, Pages = {36-61}, Publisher = {SAGE Publications}, Year = {2010}, Month = {March}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1463499610365388}, Doi = {10.1177/1463499610365388}, Key = {fds320867} } @article{fds290817, Author = {Nelson, DM}, Title = {“The Power of Sweetness” Commentary}, Journal = {Current Anthropology}, Volume = {51}, Number = {5}, Year = {2010}, Month = {October}, Key = {fds290817} } @misc{fds290787, Author = {Nelson, DM}, Title = {Mayan Pyramids}, Booktitle = {The Guatemala Reader}, Publisher = {Duke University Press}, Editor = {Grandin, L and Oglesby}, Year = {2011}, Key = {fds290787} } @article{fds290801, Author = {Nelson, DM and Members of Occupy Chapel Hill}, Title = {Her Earliest Leaf’s a Flower}, Journal = {Cultural Anthropology Hotspots (On Line). Occupy, Anthropology, and the 2011 Global Uprisings.}, Year = {2012}, url = {http://www.culanth.org/?q=node/641}, Key = {fds290801} } @article{fds290815, Author = {Nelson, DM}, Title = {Pirates, Robbers, and Mayan Shamans: The Terrible and Fine Allure of the Spirits of Capital}, Journal = {Science Fiction Studies}, Volume = {39}, Number = {118}, Pages = {437-458}, Publisher = {SF-TH, Inc.}, Year = {2012}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5621/sciefictstud.39.3.0437}, Abstract = {This essay examines China Miéville's The Scar (2004) and Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber (2000) alongside Fredric Jameson's work on "the desire called Utopia and other science fictions," in order to read an anthropological "social science fiction" from the post-genocide Maya highlands of Guatemala, involving a scam that promised half a million quetzals (about $70,000) to people who were deemed worthy by the Ajau or Earthparent (and who had contributed a small fee). Only Maya could participate, and those who created the wealth would get a bit of it. I argue that this situation was a form of postcolonial or global science fiction: An emergent form embarking from the point of view of the enslaved, the indebted, all those who work for nothing-a.k.a. "free" labor. Exploring Miéville's pirates, Hopkinson's robber queen, and Mayan shamanic investors together offers ways to think about the spirits of capital and their intensely ambivalent allure on this crisis-ridden planet. © 2000-2013 ITHAKA.}, Doi = {10.5621/sciefictstud.39.3.0437}, Key = {fds290815} } @article{fds290816, Author = {Nelson, DM}, Title = {Banal, Familiar and Enrapturing: Financial Enchantment after Guatemala’s Genocide}, Journal = {Women’S Studies Quarterly}, Volume = {40}, Number = {3-4}, Year = {2012}, Month = {December}, Key = {fds290816} } @misc{fds290785, Author = {Nelson, DM}, Title = {100% OMNILIFE: Health, Economy, and the End/s of War}, Booktitle = {War By Other Means Aftermath in Post-Genocide Guatemala}, Publisher = {Duke UP}, Year = {2013}, Key = {fds290785} } @misc{fds290786, Author = {Nelson, DM and McAllister, C}, Title = {Aftermath: Harvests of Violence and Histories of the Future}, Booktitle = {War By Other Means Aftermath in Post-Genocide Guatemala}, Publisher = {Duke UP}, Year = {2013}, Key = {fds290786} } @article{fds305971, Author = {Nelson, DM and McAllister, C}, Title = {War By Other Means Aftermath in Post-Genocide Guatemala}, Publisher = {Duke UP}, Year = {2013}, Key = {fds305971} } @article{fds290802, Author = {Nelson, DM}, Title = {Vitamin}, Journal = {Somatosphere: Science, Medicine and Anthropology}, Year = {2013}, Month = {October}, url = {http://somatosphere.net/commonplaces}, Key = {fds290802} } @article{fds290803, Author = {Nelson, DM}, Title = {’Yes to Life = No to Mining:’ Counting as Biotechnology in Life(Ltd) Guatemala}, Journal = {The Scholar and the Feminist Online}, Year = {2013}, Month = {October}, url = {http://sfonline.barnard.edu/life-un-ltd-feminism-bioscience-race/yes-to-life-no-to-mining-counting-as-biotechnology-in-life-ltd-guatemala/}, Key = {fds290803} } @article{fds303223, Author = {Nelson, D}, Title = {"The Truth of Testimonial: The Controversy over I. Rigoberta Menchú}, Year = {2014}, Month = {February}, Key = {fds303223} } @book{fds323610, Author = {D.M. Nelson}, Title = {Who Counts? The Mathematics of Death and Life after Genocide}, Publisher = {Duke University Press}, Year = {2015}, Key = {fds323610} } @article{fds351477, Author = {Oglesby, E and Nelson, DM}, Title = {Guatemala’s genocide trial and the nexus of racism and counterinsurgency}, Journal = {Journal of Genocide Research}, Volume = {18}, Number = {2-3}, Pages = {133-142}, Year = {2016}, Month = {July}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2016.1186436}, Doi = {10.1080/14623528.2016.1186436}, Key = {fds351477} } @article{fds351478, Author = {Nelson, DM}, Title = {Bonesetting: the algebra of genocide}, Journal = {Journal of Genocide Research}, Volume = {18}, Number = {2-3}, Pages = {171-187}, Year = {2016}, Month = {July}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2016.1186439}, Abstract = {Genocide rulings should not care about numbers. Legally, proving the intent to destroy a people in whole or in part is what counts. Yet numbers are vital actants in the often decades-long lead-up to trials. Aggregate numbers give weight to the specificity of individual testimony, statistical estimates can transform missing people into cold, hard facts, and algorithms can reveal ‘excess death’, even when forensic anthropologists cannot find all the bones. And because of this power, numbers are highly contested in both truth commission findings and trials like that of Generals Ríos Montt and Rodríguez Sánchez. In this article I analyse the disentangling work of statisticians and anthropologists in exhuming and counting bodies, and how particular numbers (200,000; 1,771; ninety-three per cent) are made, then re-entangled in efforts to count. The modern ideal of a universal subject of rationality and abstraction that positions women and natives as those who cannot count contributed to their historic exclusion and dehumanization. Counting, as in adding things up, is part of the historic achievement of the trial to make Maya-Ixil women and men count, in the sense of to matter.}, Doi = {10.1080/14623528.2016.1186439}, Key = {fds351478} } @article{fds341372, Author = {Nelson, DM}, Title = {Low intensities}, Journal = {Current Anthropology}, Volume = {60}, Number = {S19}, Pages = {S122-S133}, Year = {2019}, Month = {February}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/701040}, Abstract = {This essay opens with one of hundreds of massacres carried out in the early 1980s in Guatemala by agents of the military state. The killing was meant to depopulate the Rio Negro valley to make way for a hydroelectric dam. Like much of the violence of the 36-year conflict, it was low-tech and carried out by civil patrollers, which is perhaps why the Guatemalan civil war was considered a “low intensity conflict” by US Army definitions: “below conventional war … employing political, economic, informational, and military instruments.” I suggest that these instruments encompass what many anthropologists call culture. While beginning with a moment of spectacular violence, the essay then traces the mundane, everyday political and economic embeddings of militarism into Guatemalan social institutions, life, conditions of possibility, meaning systems, and abilities to affect and be affected. A history of the present, it traces the paramil-itarization of the army/government in the 1960s and 1970s via the development of death squads and other clandestine bodies and illicit networks that shape state functioning today. Yet it also explores the intensities of countercultures of militarism, the networks that have forced perpetrator accountability, reparations, and state recognition of Mayan peoples and their rights to defend their territories from accumulation by dispossession.}, Doi = {10.1086/701040}, Key = {fds341372} } | |
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