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Annihilating difference : the anthropology of genocide /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hinton, Alexander Laban (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, Cal. : University of California Press, ©2002.
Colección:California series in public anthropology ; 3.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The 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: The 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.