| Description |
xiv, 405 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
California series in public anthropology ; 3 |
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California series in public anthropology ; 3
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| Contents |
1. The Dark Side of Modernity: Toward an Anthropology of Genocide / Alexander Laban Hinton -- Pt. 1. Modernity's Edges: Genocide and Indigenous Peoples. 2. Genocide against Indigenous Peoples / David Maybury-Lewis. 3. Confronting Genocide and Ethnocide of Indigenous Peoples: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Definition, Intervention, Prevention, and Advocacy / Samuel Totten, William S. Parsons and Robert K. Hitchcock -- Pt. 2. Essentializing Difference: Anthropologists in the Holocaust. 4. Justifying Genocide: Archaeology and the Construction of Difference / Bettina Arnold. 5. Scientific Racism in Service of the Reich: German Anthropologists in the Nazi Era / Gretchen E. Schafft -- Pt. 3. Annihilating Difference: Local Dimensions of Genocide. 6. The Cultural Face of Terror in the Rwandan Genocide of 1994 / Christopher C. Taylor. 7. Dance, Music, and the Nature of Terror in Democratic Kampuchea / Toni Shapiro-Phim. 8. Averted Gaze: Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1992-1995 / Tone Bringa -- Pt. 4. Genocide's Wake: Trauma, Memory, Coping, and Renewal. 9. Archives of Violence: The Holocaust and the German Politics of Memory / Uli Linke. 10. Aftermaths of Genocide: Cambodian Villagers / May Ebihara and Judy Ledgerwood. 11. Terror, Grief, and Recovery: Genocidal Trauma in a Mayan Village in Guatemala / Beatriz Manz. 12. Recent Development in the International Law of Genocide: An Anthropological Perspective on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda / Paul J. Magnarella -- Pt. 5. Critical Reflections: Anthropology and the Study of Genocide. 13. Inoculations of Evil in the U.S.-Mexican Border Region: Reflections on the Genocidal Potential of Symbolic Violence / Carole Nagengast. 14. Coming to our Senses: Anthropology and Genocide / Nancy Scheper-Hughes. 15. Culture, Genocide, and a Public Anthropology / John R. Bowen |
| Summary |
Genocide is one of the most pressing issues that confronts us today. 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 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. [from publisher's advertisement] |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also available electronically via WWW |
| Subject |
Ethnic relations.
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Ethnic conflict.
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Genocide.
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| Author |
Hinton, Alexander Laban.
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| LC no. |
2001007073 |
| ISBN |
0520230299 paperback |
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0520230280 cased |
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