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
Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide
โ Scribed by Alexander Laban Hinton; Kenneth Roth
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 419
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Frontmatter
LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES (page vii)
FOREWARD (page ix)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (page xiii)
1. The Dark Side of Modernity: Toward an Anthropology of Genocide (Alexander Laban Hinton, page 1)
PART ONE. MODERNITY'S EDGES: GENOCIDE AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
2. Genocide against Indigenous Peoples (David Maybury-Lewis, page 43)
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, page 54)
PART TWO. ESSENTIALIZING DIFFERENCE: ANTHROPOLOGISTS IN THE HOLOCAUST
4. Justifying Genocide: Archaeology and the Construction of Difference (Bettina Arnold, page 95)
5. Scientific Racism in Service of the Reich: German Anthropologists in the Nazi Era (Gretchen E. Schafft, page 117)
PART THREE. ANNIHILATING DIFFERENCE: LOCAL DIMENSIONS OF GENOCIDE
6. The Cultural Face of Terror in the Rwandan Genocide of 1994 (Christopher C. Taylor, page 137)
7. Dance, Music, and the Nature of Terror in Democratic Kampuchea (Toni Shapiro-Phim, page 179)
8. Averted Gaze: Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1992-1995 (Tone Bringa, page 194)
PART FOUR. GENOCIDE'S WAKE: TRAUMA, MEMORY, COPING, AND RENEWAL
9. Archives of Violence: The Holocaust and the German Politics of Memory (Uli Linke, page 229)
10. Aftermaths of Genocide: Cambodian Villagers (May Ebihara and Judy Ledgerwood, page 272)
11. Terror, Grief, and Recovery: Genocidal Trauma in a Mayan Village in Guatemala (Beatriz Manz, page 292)
12. Recent Developments in the International Law of Genocide: An Anthropological Perspective on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (Paul J. Magnarella, page 310)
PART FIVE. 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, page 325)
14. Coming to our Senses: Anthropology and Genocide (Nancy Scheper-Hughes, page 348)
15. Culture, Genocide, and a Public Anthropology (John R. Bowen, page 382)
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS (page 397)
INDEX (page 401)
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