Genocide – An Anthropological Reader

An Anthropological Reader

Paperback Engels 2001 9780631223559
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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.

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ISBN13:9780631223559
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Aantal pagina's:392
Hoofdrubriek:, Mens en maatschappij

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

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