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.
Foreword by:
Kenneth Roth
Edited by:
Alexander Laban Hinton
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 3
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 544g
ISBN: 9780520230293
ISBN 10: 0520230299
Series: California Series in Public Anthropology
Pages: 419
Publication Date: 15 August 2002
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments 1. The Dark Side of Modernity: Toward an Anthropology of Genocide Alexander Laban Hinton I. 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 II. 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 III. 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 IV. 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 Developments in the International Law of Genocide: An Anthropological Perspective on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Paul J. Magnarella V. 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 List of Contributors Index
Alexander Laban Hinton is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University. He is editor of Biocultural Approaches to the Emotions (1999) and Genocide: An Anthropological Reader (2001).
Reviews for Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide
"""Many peoples of the world, including the Mayans in Guatemala, have been devastated and destroyed by genocide. Over many years these horrors remained only in the hearts and memory of the victims. The testimonies of the survivors who had the courage to denounce these crimes are making a contribution to scientific research. In Annihilating Difference, anthropologists grapple with an urgent public issue, taking new points of view that could help understand the magnitude of past atrocities and develop strategies to prevent future massacres in the heart of humanity.""-Rigoberta Menchu Tum, 1992 Nobel Peace Prize laureate"
