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.
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"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
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).
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