Genocide : an anthropological reader

Author(s)

• Hinton, Alexander Laban

Bibliographic Information

Genocide : an anthropological reader

edited by Alexander Laban Hinton

（Blackwell readers in anthropology, 3）

Blackwell Publishers, 2002

• : hardback
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: hardback ISBN 9780631223542

Description

Genocide: An Anthropological Reader helps to lay a foundation for a ground-breaking "anthropology of genocide" by gathering together for the first time the seminal texts for learning about and understanding this phenomenon.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements. . Introduction: Genocide and Anthropology: Alexander Laban Hinton. Part I: Conceptual Foundations. 1. Genocide. ( Raphael Lemkin). 2. Text of the UN Genocide Convention. 3. Genocide: Its Political Use in the Twentieth Century. (Leo Kuper). 4. Genocide: A Sociological Perspective. (Helen Fein). 5. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. (Hannah Arendt). 6. Modernity and the Holocaust. (Zygmunt Bauman). Part II: Genocide, History, and Modernity. 7. Victims of Progress. (John H. Bodley). 8. Culture of Terror - Space of Death: Roger Casement's Putumayo Report and the Explanation of Torture. (Michael Taussig). 9. National Socialist Germany. (Eric R. Wolf). Part III: Manufacturing Difference and "Purification". 10. "Ethnic Cleansing": A Metaphor for Our Time? (Akbhar S. Ahmed). 11. Imagined Communities and Real Victims: Self-Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in Yugoslavia. (Robert M. Hayden). 12. A Head for an Eye: Revenge in the Cambodian Genocide. (Alexander Laban Hinton). 13. Dead Certainty: Ethnic Violence in the Era of Globalization: Arjun Appadurai. Part IV: Coping and Understanding. 14. Fear as a Way of Life. (Linda Green). 15. The Myth of Global Ethnic Conflict. (John R. Bowen). 16. Speechless Emissaries: Refugees, Humanitarianism, and Dehistoricization. (Liisa H. Malkki). Appendix: Websites on Genocide. Index.

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780631223559

Description

Genocide: An Anthropological Reader helps to lay a foundation for a ground-breaking "anthropology of genocide" by gathering together for the first time the seminal texts for learning about and understanding this phenomenon.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii Introduction: Genocide and Anthropology 1 Alexander Laban Hinton Part I: Conceptual Foundations 25 1. Genocide 27 Raphael Lemkin 2. Text of the UN Genocide Convention 43 3. Genocide: Its Political Use in the Twentieth Century 48 Leo Kuper 4. Genocide: A Sociological Perspective 74 Helen Fein 5. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil 91 Hannah Arendt 6. Modernity and the Holocaust 110 Zygmunt Bauman Part II: Genocide, History, and Modernity 135 7. Victims of Progress 137 John H. Bodley 8. Culture of Terror - Space of Death: Roger Casement's Putumayo Report and the Explanation of Torture 164 Michael Taussig 9. National Socialist Germany 19 Eric R. Wolf Part III: Manufacturing Difference and "Purification" 209 10. "Ethnic Cleansing": A Metaphor for Our Time? 211 Akbhar S. Ahmed 11. Imagined Communities and Real Victims: Self-Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in Yugoslavia 231 Robert M. Hayden 12. A Head for an Eye: Revenge in the Cambodian Genocide 254 Alexander Laban Hinton 13. Dead Certainty: Ethnic Violence in the Era of Globalization 286 Arjun Appadurai Part IV: Coping and Understanding 305 14. Fear as a Way of Life 307 Linda Green 15. The Myth of Global Ethnic Conflict 334 John R. Bowen 16. Speechless Emissaries: Refugees, Humanitarianism, and Dehistoricization 344 Liisa H. Malkki Appendix: Websites on Genocide 368 Index 370

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Details

• NCID: BA55167508
• ISBN:
  • 0631223541
  • 063122355X
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Malden, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 382 p.
• Size: 26 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA54318131