Faces of Genocide: Violence, Identity and Memory: An Anthropological Study on the Armenian Genocide
Journal: UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam)
Year: 2020

This study examines the Armenian genocide in a comparative perspective and the way the act of violence itself has transgenerational consequences for the victims. The main aim of this dissertation is to study the importance of identity making and identity destruction within the nucleus of the genocidal process, and its consequences for the victimized group. By placing identity at the center of genocide, this study shows how the fear of an imagined existential threat by the Ottoman perpetrators tr