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"Fresh, useful, and engaging. This timely book reflects new research and important critical perspectives on the role of social science and the response of anthropology to human suffering."—Richard Pierre Claude, Founding Editor of Human Rights Quarterly
"Many peoples of the world, including the Mayans in Guatemala, have been devastated and destroyed by genocide. Over many years these horrors remained only in the hearts and memory of the victims. The testimonies of the survivors who had the courage to denounce these crimes are making a contribution to scientific research. In Annihilating Difference, anthropologists grapple with an urgent public issue, taking new points of view that could help understand the magnitude of past atrocities and develop strategies to prevent future massacres in the heart of humanity."—Rigoberta Menchú Tum, 1992 Nobel Peace Prize laureate
"This volume—a collection of writings on genocide from the perspective of anthropology-seeks a deeper understanding of our era's most heinous crime. It asks not only what happened but why it happened. It seeks not simply to describe but to explain. And in offering an explanation of this horrendous social malady, it points the direction for a possible cure."—Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch, from the Foreword
"This volume ranges far and wide across centuries and cultures to present fascinating perspectives on the phenomenon of genocide. It is a new venture for anthropologists, whose insights will be useful to us all and who connect their scholarship to profound moral concerns."—Howard Zinn, author of You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
"Annihilating Difference is an anthropological collection that warrants the attention of non-anthropologists. It simultaneously adds to the growing body of knowledge about genocide and provides a revealing glimpse into what anthropologists are studying and how they are studying it."—Donald L. Horowitz, author of The Deadly Ethnic Riot
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
1. The Dark Side of Modernity:
Toward an Anthropology of Genocide
Alexander Laban Hinton
I. Modernity’s Edges: Genocide and Indigenous Peoples
2. Genocide against Indigenous Peoples
David Maybury-Lewis
3. Confronting Genocide and Ethnocide of Indigenous Peoples:
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Definition, Intervention,
Prevention, and Advocacy
Samuel Totten, William S. Parsons, and Robert K. Hitchcock
II. Essentializing Difference: Anthropologists in the Holocaust
4. Justifying Genocide:
Archaeology and the Construction of Difference
Bettina Arnold
5. Scientific Racism in Service of the Reich:
German Anthropologists in the Nazi Era
Gretchen E. Schafft
III. Annihilating Difference: Local Dimensions of Genocide
6. The Cultural Face of Terror
in the Rwandan Genocide of 1994
Christopher C. Taylor
7. Dance, Music, and the Nature of Terror
in Democratic Kampuchea
Toni Shapiro-Phim
8. Averted Gaze:
Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina 1992–1995
Tone Bringa
IV. Genocide’s Wake: Trauma, Memory, Coping, and Renewal
9. Archives of Violence:
The Holocaust and the German Politics of Memory
Uli Linke
10. Aftermaths of Genocide: Cambodian Villagers
May Ebihara and Judy Ledgerwood
11. Terror, Grief, and Recovery:
Genocidal Trauma in a Mayan Village in Guatemala
Beatriz Manz
12. Recent Developments in the International Law of Genocide:
An Anthropological Perspective on the
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Paul J. Magnarella
V. Critical Reflections: Anthropology and the Study of Genocide
13. Inoculations of Evil in the U.S.-Mexican Border Region:
Reflections on the Genocidal Potential
of Symbolic Violence
Carole Nagengast
14. Coming to our Senses: Anthropology and Genocide
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
15. Culture, Genocide, and a Public Anthropology
John R. Bowen
List of Contributors
Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Alexander Laban Hinton is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University. He is editor of Biocultural Approaches to the Emotions (1999) and Genocide: An Anthropological Reader (2001).
Zusammenfassung
Genocide is one of the most pressing issues that confronts us today. Its death toll is staggering: over one hundred million dead. This book collects together original essays on genocide, exploring a wide range of cases, including Nazi Germany, Cambodia, Guatemala, Rwanda and Bosnia.
