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3. As Catherine Komisaruk points out, historians' and archivists' methods and contemporary scribes' choice of words often occlude the study of rape, see "Rape Narratives, Rape Silences: Sexual Violence and Judicial Testimony in Colonial Guatemala," Biography 31:3 (Summer 2008), pp. 379, 390, 392-393 n.6. Incidents of rape appear in documents labeled for other crimes.