War by Other Means: Aftermath in Post-Genocide Guatemala

Between 1960 and 1996, Guatemala's civil war claimed 250,000 lives and displaced one million people. Since the peace accords, Guatemala has struggled to address the legacy of war, genocidal violence against the Maya, and the dismantling of alternative projects for the future. War by Other Means brings together new essays by leading scholars of Guatemala from a range of geographical backgrounds and disciplinary perspectives.

Contributors consider a wide range of issues confronting present-day Guatemala: returning refugees, land reform, gang violence, neoliberal economic restructuring, indigenous and women's rights, complex race relations, the politics of memory, and the challenges of sustaining hope. From a sweeping account of Guatemalan elites' centuries-long use of violence to suppress dissent to studies of intimate experiences of complicity and contestation in richly drawn localities, War by Other Means provides a nuanced reckoning of the injustices that made genocide possible and the ongoing attempts to overcome them.

Contributors. Santiago Bastos, Jennifer Burrell, Manuela Camus, Matilde Gonz lez-Iz s, Jorge Ram n Gonz lez Ponciano, Greg Grandin, Paul Kobrak, Deborah T. Levenson, Carlota McAllister, Diane M. Nelson, Elizabeth Oglesby, Luis Solano, Irmalicia Vel squez Nimatuj, Paula Worby

Author: Carlota McAllister
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 10/04/2013
Pages: 408
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780822355090

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2014

About the Author

Carlota McAllister is Associate Professor of Anthropology at York University in Toronto.

Diane M. Nelson is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. She is the author of Reckoning: The Ends of War in Guatemala, also published by Duke University Press.