Acknowledgements vii
Introduction: Genocide and Anthropology 1
Alexander Laban Hinton
Part I: Conceptual Foundations 25
1. Genocide 27
Raphael 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