Why did they kill? [[electronic resource] ] : Cambodia in the shadow of genocide / / Alex Hinton

• Autore: Hinton Alexander Laban
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (385 p.)
• Disciplina: 959.604/2
• Soggetto topico: Political atrocities - Cambodia; Genocide - Cambodia
• Soggetto geografico: Cambodia Politics and government 1975-1979
• Soggetto non controllato: 1970s; anthropological analysis; anthropologists; anthropology; cambodia; cambodian culture; cambodian genocide; cultural knowledge; cultural studies; death toll; execution; genocidal ideologies; history of violence; human motivation; human psychology; human rights; illness; khmer rouge; malnutrition; mass murder; millions dead; nazi regime; nonfiction; origins of genocide; overwork; perceived differences; political movement; political violence; social analysis; southeast asia; starvation; violence
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : in the shadow of genocide -- The prison without walls -- A head for an eye : Disproportionate Revenge -- Power, patronage, and suspicion -- In the shade of Pol Pot's umbrella -- The fire without smoke -- The DK social order -- Manufacturing difference -- The dark side of face and honor -- Conclusion : why people kill.
• Sommario/riassunto: Of all the horrors human beings perpetrate, genocide stands near the top of the list. Its toll is staggering: well over 100 million dead worldwide. Why Did They Kill? is one of the first anthropological attempts to analyze the origins of genocide. In it, Alexander Hinton focuses on the devastation that took place in Cambodia from April 1975 to January 1979 under the Khmer Rouge in order to explore why mass murder happens and what motivates perpetrators to kill. Basing his analysis on years of investigative work in Cambodia, Hinton finds parallels between the Khmer Rouge and the Nazi regimes. Policies in Cambodia resulted in the deaths of over 1.7 million of that country's 8 million inhabitants-almost a quarter of the population--who perished from starvation, overwork, illness, malnutrition, and execution. Hinton considers this violence in light of a number of dynamics, including the ways in which difference is manufactured, how identity and meaning are constructed, and how emotionally resonant forms of cultural knowledge are incorporated into genocidal ideologies.
• Altri titoli varianti: Cambodia in the shadow of genocide
• Titolo autorizzato: Why did they kill
• ISBN: 9786612763052; 1-282-76305-9; 1-59875-009-7; 9780520241789; 9781417545208; 1-4175-4520-8; 0-520-93794-5; 0-520-24178-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783386503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: California series in public anthropology ; ; 11.