BookPaper cadavers: the archives of dictatorship in Guatemala
Author
Title
- Paper cadavers: the archives of dictatorship in Guatemala.
Published
- Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2014.
HLAS annotation
HLAS annotation
- The author provides an important description of the accidental discovery of the 75 million-page archives of the National Police and the subsequent struggle over their preservation and use. Her in-depth participant observer account of the significance of the archives for the staff, both older (often former revolutionary militants) and younger, is insightful and fascinating. The book also provides a solid history of the National Police during the Cold War period.
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Description
- 335 p.: bibl., index.
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LC subjects
Notes
- Excavating Babylon -- Archival culture, state secrets, and the archive wars -- How the guerrillero became an archivist -- Building counterinsurgency archives -- Recycling the National Police in war, peace, and post-peace -- Revolutionary lives in the archives -- Archives and the next generation(s) -- Changing the law of what can be said, and done -- The possibilities and limitations of archival thinking.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
- American encounters/global interactions
- American encounters/global interactions.
ISBN
- 9780822355977 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780822356028 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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HLAS print item
- 1096
HLAS contributor
- Charles D. Brockett