Annihilating Difference by Alexander Laban Hinton
Genocide is one of the most pressing issues that confronts us today. Its death toll is staggering: over one hundred million dead. Because of their intimate experience in the communities where genocide takes place, anthropologists are uniquely positioned to explain how and why this mass annihilation occurs and the types of devastation genocide causes. This ground breaking book, the first collection of original essays on genocide to be published in anthropology, explores a wide range of cases, including Nazi Germany, Cambodia, Guatemala, Rwanda, and Bosnia.
"Many peoples of the world, including the Mayans in Guatemala, have been devastated and destroyed by genocideOver many years these horrors remained only in the hearts and memory of the victims. The testimonies of the survivors who had the courage to denounce these crimes are making a contribution to scientific research. In Annihilating Difference, anthropologists grapple with an urgent public issue, taking new points of view that could help understand the magnitude of past atrocities and develop strategies to prevent future massacres in the heart of humanity."-Rigoberta Menchu Tum, 1992 Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Alexander Laban Hinton is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University. He is editor of Biocultural Approaches to the Emotions (1999) and Genocide: An Anthropological Reader (2001).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780520230293 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520230299 |
| Title | Annihilating Difference |
| Author | Alexander Laban Hinton |
| Series | California Series In Public Anthropology |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 2002-08-15 |
| Number of pages | 419 |
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