Stumped identities: Body image, bodies politic, and the Mujer Maya as prosthetic
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Diane Michele Nelson
Professor of Cultural Anthropology
I began fieldwork in Guatemala in 1985 exploring the impact of civil war on highland
indigenous communities with a focus on the more than 100,000 people made into refugees
and 200,000 people murdered in what the United Nations has called genocidal violence.
Since then my research has sought to understand the causes and effects of this violence,
including the destruction and reconstruction of community life (Guatemala: Los Polos
de Desarrollo: El Caso de la Desestructuracin de las Comunidades Ind
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