Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents xi
3. Pre/face. Little Did I Know xiii
4. AcKNOWLEDGEmeants xxxiii
5. Chapter One. Under the Sign of the Virgen de Tránsito 1
6. Chapter Two. The Postwar Milieu: Means, Ends, and Identi-ties 39
7. Chapter Three. Horror’s Special Effects 86
8. Chapter Four. Indian Giver or Nobel Savage?: Rigoberta Menchú Tum’s Stoll/en Past 126
9. Chapter Five. Anthropologist Discovers Legendary Two-Faced Indian 164
10. Chapter Six. Hidden Powers, Duplicitous State/s 208
11. Chapter Seven. Life during Wartime 252
12. Chapter Eight. Accounting for the Postwar, Balancing the Book/s 290
13. Chapter Nine. The Ends 322
14. Notes 327
15. Works Cited 361
16. Index 387