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

Publication Info. Berkeley, Cal. : University of California Press, [2002]
©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 405 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series California series in public anthropology ; 3
California series in public anthropology ; 3.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Dark side of modernity: toward an anthropology of genocide / Alexander Laban Hinton -- PART ONE: MODERNITY'S EDGES: GENOCIDE AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES: Genocide against indigenous peoples / David Maybury-Louis -- Confronting genocide and ethnocide of indigenous peoples: an interdisciplinary approach to definition, intervention, prevention, and advocacy / Samuel Totten, Williams S. Parsons, Robert K. Hitchcock -- PART TWO: ESSENTIALIZING DIFFERENCE: ANTHROPOLOGISTS IN THE HOLOCAUST: Justifying genocide: archaeology and the construction of difference / Bettina Arnold -- Scientific racism in service of the Reich: German anthropologists in the Nazi Era / Gretchen E. Schafft -- PART THREE: ANNIHILATING DIFFERENCE: LOCAL DIMENSIONS OF GENOCIDE: Cultural face of terror in the Rwandan genocide of 1994 / Christopher C. Taylor -- Dance, music, and the nature of terror in democratic Kampuchea / Toni Shapiro-Phim -- Averted gaze: genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1992-1995 / Tone Bringa -- PART FOUR: GENOCIDE'S WAKE: TRAUMA, MEMORY, COPING, AND RENEWAL: Archives of violence: the Holocaust and the German politics of memory / Uli Linke -- Aftermaths of genocide: Cambodian villagers / May Ebihara, Judy Ledgerwood -- Terror, grief, and recovery: genocidal trauma in a Mayan village in Guatemala / Beatriz Manz -- Recent developments in the international law of genocide: an anthropological perspective on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda / Paul J. Magnarella -- PART FIVE: CRITICAL REFLECTIONS: ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE STUDY OF GENOCIDE: Inoculation of evil in the U.S.-Mexican Border Region: reflections on the genocidal potential of symbolic violence / Carole Nagengast -- Coming to our senses: anthropology and genocide / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- Culture, genocide, and a public anthropology / John R. Bowen.
Summary This text presents a collection of original essays on genocide. It explores a wide range of cases, including Nazi Germany, Cambodia, Guatemala, Rwanda, and Bosnia.
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Subject Genocide.
Genocide.
Ethnic conflict.
Ethnic conflict.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Hinton, Alexander Laban, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Annihilating difference. Berkeley, Cal. : University of California Press, ©2002 0520230280 (DLC) 2001007073 (OCoLC)48449705
ISBN 0520927575 (electronic book)
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0520230280 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
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