{"product_id":"genocide-isbn-9780631223559","title":"Genocide","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGenocide: An Anthropological Reader\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Genocide and Anthropology 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlexander Laban Hinton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Conceptual Foundations 25\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Genocide 27\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRaphaël Lemkin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Text of the UN Genocide Convention 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Genocide: Its Political Use in the Twentieth Century 48\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLeo Kuper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Genocide: A Sociological Perspective 74\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHelen Fein\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil 91\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHannah Arendt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Modernity and the Holocaust 110\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eZygmunt Bauman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Genocide, History, and Modernity 135\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Victims of Progress 137\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn H. Bodley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Culture of Terror – Space of Death: Roger Casement's Putumayo Report and the Explanation of Torture 164\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Taussig\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. National Socialist Germany 19\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEric R. Wolf\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Manufacturing Difference and \"Purification\" 209\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. \"Ethnic Cleansing\": A Metaphor for Our Time? 211\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAkbhar S. Ahmed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Imagined Communities and Real Victims: Self-Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in Yugoslavia 231 \u003ci\u003eRobert M. Hayden \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. A Head for an Eye: Revenge in the Cambodian Genocide 254\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlexander Laban Hinton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Dead Certainty: Ethnic Violence in the Era of Globalization 286\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eArjun Appadurai\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Coping and Understanding 305\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Fear as a Way of Life 307\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLinda Green\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. The Myth of Global Ethnic Conflict 334\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn R. Bowen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Speechless Emissaries: Refugees, Humanitarianism, and Dehistoricization 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiisa H. Malkki\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix: Websites on Genocide 368\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 370\u003c\/p\u003e  \"An excellent contribution to the field of genocide studies: lucid, wide-ranging, and accessible; should be a core text in any course on genocide.\" \u003ci\u003eRoger W. Smith, The College of William and Mary\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c!--end--\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This volume, edited and ably introduced by an important scholar of genocide, is an especially timely and important contribution to a growing field. Essential international documents coupled with an excellent collection of previously published articles attempt to explain genocide and related state violence as the first step towards prevention. This fine book is especially suitable for undergraduate and graduate courses.\" \u003ci\u003eCarole Nagengast, University of New Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This \u003ci\u003eReader\u003c\/i\u003e will be useful for college teachers and novice administrators. Each contribution examines dramatic and controversial issues of immediate concern. While the collection addresses genocidal disasters, its emphasis is on the differences among them, and the varied interpretations that have been made of their causes and their consequences.\" \u003ci\u003eJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eAlexander Laban Hinton\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eBiocultural Approaches to the Emotions\u003c\/i\u003e (1999) and \u003ci\u003eAnnihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), an edited collection of new research articles  During the 20th century tens of millions of people were annihilated by genocidal regimes. As we enter the 21st century, we must look back and attempt to comprehend what has been aptly termed the \"century of genocide.\" It is only through such understanding that we can begin to imagine ways of preventing or minimizing future atrocities. \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGenocide: An Anthropological Reader\u003c\/i\u003e lays the 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. While scholars in other fields have conducted excellent analyses of the macrolevel factors facilitating genocide, few have been able to approach genocide from the local perspective. By filling this important niche-pulling together key anthropological and interdisciplinary sources on genocide - \u003ci\u003eGenocide: An Anthropological Reader\u003c\/i\u003e stands both to make an important contribution to our understanding of genocide and to serve as a valuable resource for readers across a wide variety of fields.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989279195365,"sku":"NP9780631223559","price":42.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631223559.jpg?v=1761783495","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/genocide-isbn-9780631223559","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}