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Why did they kill? : Cambodia in the shadow of genocide /
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 t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2005.
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| Colección: | California series in public anthropology ;
11. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource : maps. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520937949 0520937945 1417545208 9781417545209 1598750097 9781598750096 9780520241787 0520241789 9780520241794 0520241797 9786612763052 6612763051 1282763059 9781282763050 |