Annihilating difference : the anthropology of genocide / edited by Alexander Laban Hinton ; with a foreword by Kenneth Roth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hinton, Alexander Laban.

Series:

California series in public anthropology ; 3.

California series in public anthropology ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genocide.

Ethnic conflict.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (420 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Genocide is one of the most pressing issues that confronts us today. Its death toll is staggering: over one hundred million dead. Because of their intimate experience in the communities where genocide takes place, anthropologists are uniquely positioned to explain how and why this mass annihilation occurs and the types of devastation genocide causes. This ground breaking book, the first collection of original essays on genocide to be published in anthropology, explores a wide range of cases, including Nazi Germany, Cambodia, Guatemala, Rwanda, and Bosnia.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

FIGURES AND TABLES

FOREWORD

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1. The Dark Side of Modernity: Toward an Anthropology of Genocide

2. Genocide against Indigenous Peoples

3. Confronting Genocide and Ethnocide of Indigenous Peoples: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Definition, Intervention, Prevention, and Advocacy

4. Justifying Genocide: Archaeology and the Construction of Difference

5. Scientific Racism in Service of the Reich: German Anthropologists in the Nazi Era

6. The Cultural Face of Terror in the Rwandan Genocide of 1904

7. Dance, Music, and the Nature of Terror in Democratic Kampuchea

8. Averted Gaze: Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1992-1995

9. Archives of Violence: The Holocaust and the German Politics of Memory

10. Aftermaths of Genocide: Cambodian Villagers

11. Terror, Grief, and Recovery: Genocidal Trauma in a Mayan Village in Guatemala

12. Recent Developments in the International Law of Genocide: An Anthropological Perspective on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

13. Inoculations of Evil in the U.S.-Mexican Border Region: Reflections on the Genocidal Potential of Symbolic Violence

14. Coming to our Senses: Anthropology and Genocide

15. Culture, Genocide, and a Public Anthropology

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612758966

9781597344685

1597344680

9781282758964

1282758969

9780520927575

0520927575

OCLC:

50739224