Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations viii
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Introduction “My Soul Is a Military Soul” 1
6. Chapter 1 The Methodological Crisis Revisited 23
7. Chapter 2 A Postcolonial Reenactment The Cold War Civil Self-Defense Patrol System 47
8. Chapter 3 A Chameleonlike Army: Civic Action, a Postcolonial Strategy 68
9. Chapter 4 The Beheading of a Popular Maya Uprising in a “Red Community” 91
10. Chapter 5 Early Disbanding, Postgenocide Resistance, and Na’tab’al (Memory) 113
11. Chapter 6 “Inverted Discourse” Collaboration in “White Communities” 134
12. Chapter 7 Nationalistic Mythology Revival Failure to Dismantle the Internal Enemy Myth 156
13. Chapter 8 A “Silence That Hurts” Garrison Communities 177
14. Chapter 9 Militaristic Legacies: Lynching and La Cadena 196
15. Chapter 10 A Forseen Aftermath: Decree 3-2014 214
16. Appendix 225
17. Bibliography 227
18. Index 258