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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777338303321

Titolo

Annihilating difference : the anthropology of genocide / / Alexander Laban Hinton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2002]

©2002

ISBN

1-59734-468-0

9786612758966

1-282-75896-9

0-520-92757-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (420 p.)

Collana

California Series in Public Anthropology ; ; 3

Disciplina

304.6/63

Soggetti

Genocide

Ethnic conflict

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.