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Genocide an anthropological reader edited by Alexander Laban Hinton.

By: Material type: TextTextAnalytics: Show analyticsPublication details: Malden, Mass. Oxford : Blackwell 2002.Description: 382 pages 24 cmISBN:
  • 0631223541
  • 063122355X (pbk.
DDC classification:
  • 304.663 HIN
Contents:
Introduction : Genocide and anthropology /​ A.L. 1inton Genocide /​ Raphaël Lemkin Text of the UN Genocide Convention Genocide : its political use in the twentieth century /​ Leo Kuper Genocide : a sociological perspective /​ Helen Fein Eichmann in Jerusalem : a report on the banality of evil /​ Hannah Arendt Modernity and the Holocaust /​ Zygmunt Bauman Victims of progress /​ John H. Bodley Culture of terror, space of death : Roger Casement's Putumayo report and the explanation of torture /​ Michael Taussig National Socialist Germany /​ Eric R. Wolf "Ethnic cleansing" : a metaphor for our time? /​ Akbar S. Ahmed Imagined communities and real victims : self-determination and ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia /​ Robert M. Hayden Head for an eye : revenge in the Cambodian genocide /​ A.L. Hinton Dead certainty : ethnic violence in the era of globalization /​ Arjun Appadurai Fear as a way of life /​ Linda Green Myth of global ethnic conflict /​ John R. Bowen Speechless emissaries : refugees, humanitarianism, and dehistoricization /​ Liisa H. Malkki.

Introduction : Genocide and anthropology /​ A.L. 1inton Genocide /​ Raphaël Lemkin Text of the UN Genocide Convention Genocide : its political use in the twentieth century /​ Leo Kuper Genocide : a sociological perspective /​ Helen Fein Eichmann in Jerusalem : a report on the banality of evil /​ Hannah Arendt Modernity and the Holocaust /​ Zygmunt Bauman Victims of progress /​ John H. Bodley Culture of terror, space of death : Roger Casement's Putumayo report and the explanation of torture /​ Michael Taussig National Socialist Germany /​ Eric R. Wolf "Ethnic cleansing" : a metaphor for our time? /​ Akbar S. Ahmed Imagined communities and real victims : self-determination and ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia /​ Robert M. Hayden Head for an eye : revenge in the Cambodian genocide /​ A.L. Hinton Dead certainty : ethnic violence in the era of globalization /​ Arjun Appadurai Fear as a way of life /​ Linda Green Myth of global ethnic conflict /​ John R. Bowen Speechless emissaries : refugees, humanitarianism, and dehistoricization /​ Liisa H. Malkki.

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