Genocide : truth, memory, and representation / edited by Alexander Laban Hinton and Kevin Lewis O'Neill.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hinton, Alexander Laban.

O'Neill, Kevin Lewis, 1977-

Series:

Cultures and practice of violence series.

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

The cultures and practice of violence series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genocide.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Leading anthropologists consider issues of truth, memory, and representation in the aftermath of genocides in the Balkans, Guatemala, Indonesia, East Timor, Germany, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Sudan.

Contents:

What is an anthropology of genocide? : reflections on field research with Maya survivors in Guatemala / Victoria Sanford

Perverse outcomes : international monitoring and the perpetuation of violence in Sudan / Sharon E. Hutchinson

Whose genocide? whose truth? representations of victim and perpetrator in Rwanda / Jennie E. Burnet

A politics of silences : violence, memory, and treacherous speech in post-1965 Bali / Leslie Dwyer

The limits of empathy : emotional anesthesia and the museum of corpses in post-Holocaust Germany / Uli Linke

Forgotten Guatemala : genocide, truth, and denial in Guatemala's Oriente / Debra Rodman

Addressing the legacies of mass violence and genocide in Indonesia and East Timor: Truth, memory, and corruption / Elizabeth Drexler

Mediated hostility : media, affective citizenship, and genocide in northern Nigeria / Conerly Casey

Cleansed of experience? : genocide, ethnic cleansing, and the challenges of anthropological representation / Pamela Ballinger

Epilogue : the imagination of genocide / Antonius C.G.M. Robben.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613036537

9781283036535

1283036533

9780822392361

0822392364

OCLC:

1148940576