Silenced Communities : : Legacies of Militarization and Militarism in a Rural Guatemalan Town / / Marcia Esparza.
Although the Guatemalan Civil War ended more than two decades ago, its bloody legacy continues to resonate even today. In Silenced Communities, author Marcia Esparza offers an ethnographic account of the failed demilitarization of the rural militia in the town of Santo Tomás Chichicastenango followi...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (294 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction “My Soul Is a Military Soul”
- Chapter 1 The Methodological Crisis Revisited
- Chapter 2 A Postcolonial Reenactment The Cold War Civil Self-Defense Patrol System
- Chapter 3 A Chameleonlike Army: Civic Action, a Postcolonial Strategy
- Chapter 4 The Beheading of a Popular Maya Uprising in a “Red Community”
- Chapter 5 Early Disbanding, Postgenocide Resistance, and Na’tab’al (Memory)
- Chapter 6 “Inverted Discourse” Collaboration in “White Communities”
- Chapter 7 Nationalistic Mythology Revival Failure to Dismantle the Internal Enemy Myth
- Chapter 8 A “Silence That Hurts” Garrison Communities
- Chapter 9 Militaristic Legacies: Lynching and La Cadena
- Chapter 10 A Forseen Aftermath: Decree 3-2014
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index