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.
This volume, edited and ably introduced by an important scholar of genocide, is an especially timely and important contribution to a growing field. Essential international documents coupled with an excellent collection of previously published articles attempt to explain genocide and related state violence as the first step towards prevention. This fine book is especially suitable for undergraduate and graduate courses. Carole Nagengast, University of New Mexico
This Reader will be useful for college teachers and novice administrators. Each contribution examines dramatic and controversial issues of immediate concern. While the collection addresses genocidal disasters, its emphasis is on the differences among them, and the varied interpretations that have been made of their causes and their consequences. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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