Annihilating difference
Subtitle: the anthropology of genocide
By: edited by Alexander Laban Hinton ; with a foreword by Kenneth Roth.
Contributors: Hinton, Alexander Laban.
Series: California series in public anthropology -- 3
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 405
Subjects: Genocide; Ethnic conflict
Description: Genocide is one of the most pressing issues that confronts us today. 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 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. [from publisher's advertisement].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The dark side of modernity: toward an anthropology of genocide / Alexander Laban Hinton; title: PART ONE: MODERNITY'S EDGES: GENOCIDE AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES:  Genocide against indigenous peoples / David Maybury-Louis; title: Confronting genocide and ethnocide of indigenous peoples: an interdisciplinary approach to definition, intervention, prevention, and advocacy / Samuel Totten, Williams S. Parsons, and Robert K. Hitchcock; title: PART TWO: ESSENTIALIZING DIFFERENCE: ANTHROPOLOGISTS IN THE HOLOCAUST: Justifying genocide: archaeology and the construction of difference / Bettina Arnold; title: Scientific racism in service of the Reich: German anthropologists in the Nazi Era / Gretchen E. Schafft; title: PART THREE: ANNIHILATING DIFFERENCE: LOCAL DIMENSIONS OF GENOCIDE: The cultural face of terror in the Rwandan genocide of 1994 / Christopher C. Taylor; title: Dance, music, and the nature of terror in democratic Kampuchea / Toni Shapiro-Phim; title: Averted gaze: genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1992-1995 / Tone Bringa; title: PART FOUR: GENOCIDE'S WAKE: TRAUMA, MEMORY, COPING, AND RENEWAL: Archives of violence: the Holocaust and the German politics of memory / Uli Linke; title: Aftermaths of genocide: Cambodian villagers / May Ebihara and Judy Ledgerwood; title: Terror, grief, and recovery: genocidal trauma in a Mayan village in Guatemala / Beatriz Manz; title: Recent developments in the international law of genocide: an anthropological perspective on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda / Paul J. Magnarella; title: 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; title: Coming to our senses: anthropology and genocide / Nancy Scheper-Hughes; title: Culture, genocide, and a public anthropology / John R. Bowen.