Annihilating Difference by Alexander Laban Hinton

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 book collects together original essays on genocide, exploring a wide range of cases from an anthropological viewpoint, 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 Assistant 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	9780520230286
ISBN 10	0520230280
Title	Annihilating Difference
Author	Alexander Laban Hinton
Series	California Series In Public Anthropology
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Publisher	University of California Press
Year published	2002-08-15
Number of pages	419
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