Genocide

Genocide: An Anthropological Reader 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.

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