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Genocide: An Anthropological Reader

ISBN: 978-0-631-22354-2

January 2002

Wiley-Blackwell

396 pages

Description

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.

About the Author
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
Features

  • 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.

  • Links macrolevel analysis to local-level understandings and lays foundation for a ground-breaking "anthropology of genocide".

  • Includes extensive bibliography of print and electronic resources on genocide.