Genocide

An Anthropological Reader

Buch | Softcover

400 Seiten

2001
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-0-631-22355-9 (ISBN)

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* Gathers key anthropological and interdisciplinary writings on genocide together for the first time and explores attempts to define genocide. * Traces the history of genocide in the 20th century with discussion of the Holocaust, and examples from Bosnia, Cambodia, Africa, and Latin America.

Alexander Laban Hinton is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and a faculty fellow in the Center for Global Change and Governance at Rutgers University, Newark. He is the editor of Biocultural Approaches to the Emotions (1999) and Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide (2002), an edited collection of new research articles

Acknowledgements vii

Introduction: Genocide and Anthropology 1
Alexander Laban Hinton

Part I: Conceptual Foundations 25

1. Genocide 27
Raphaël 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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.12.2001
Reihe/Serie	Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Sociology
Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	173 x 248 mm
Gewicht	726 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	0-631-22355-X / 063122355X
ISBN-13	978-0-631-22355-9 / 9780631223559
Zustand	Neuware