After the Massacre - Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai

Zusatztext "Offers a timely addition to the fields of comparative religion and war." Informationen zum Autor Heonik Kwon is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. Drew Faust is Dean of the Radcliffe Institute and Lincoln Professor of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. Klappentext "The scholarship that went into this work is excellent in every respect. The writing and organization are very strong; the text is theoretically informed and persuasively argued. Moreover, the study is chock-full of information on a wide array of important but little-studied topics in Vietnamese studies. Despite their obvious importance, this is the first study to view them through Kwon's unique and illuminating lens."—Peter Zinoman, author of The Colonial Bastille: A History of Imprisonment in Vietnam, 1862-1940 Zusammenfassung The legacy of the massacre of civilians at My Lai reverberates throughout Vietnam. This study considers how Vietnamese villagers in My Lai and Ha My - a village where South Korean troops committed an equally appalling massacre of unarmed civilians - assimilate the catastrophe of these mass deaths into their everyday ritual life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgments Foreword Map of Vietnam Introduction 1. The Bipolarity of Death 2. Massacres in the Year of the Monkey! 1968 3. A Generation Afterward 4. Ancestors in the Street 5. Heroes and Ancestors 6. Grievous Death 7. The Stone of Fury 8. The Decomposition of the Cold War Conclusion: Liberation from Grievance Notes Index

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• Authors: H Kwon, Heonik Kwon, Kwon Heonik
• Assisted by: Drew Faust (Foreword), Faust Drew (Foreword)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.11.2006
• EAN: 9780520247970
• ISBN: 978-0-520-24797-0
• No. of pages: 231
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 216 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes; Asia: Local Studies/Global The; Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes; Asia: Local Studies/Global The
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Vietnam, Anthropology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, War Crimes, Violence in society, Violence and abuse in society