Why Did They Kill? by Alexander Laban Hinton
Of all the horrors human beings perpetrate, genocide stands near the top of the list. Its toll is staggering: well over 100 million dead worldwide. Why Did They Kill? is one of the first anthropological attempts to analyze the origins of genocide. In it, Alexander Hinton focuses on the devastation that took place in Cambodia from April 1975 to January 1979 under the Khmer Rouge in order to explore why mass murder happens and what motivates perpetrators to kill. Basing his analysis on years of investigative work in Cambodia, Hinton finds parallels between the Khmer Rouge and the Nazi regimes. Policies in Cambodia resulted in the deaths of over 1.7 million of that country's 8 million inhabitants - almost a quarter of the population - who perished from starvation, overwork, illness, malnutrition, and execution. Hinton considers this violence in light of a number of dynamics, including the ways in which difference is manufactured, how identity and meaning are constructed, and how emotionally resonant forms of cultural knowledge are incorporated into genocidal ideologies.-
Pathologies of Power
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The Land of Open Graves
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Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies
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Reimagining Global Health
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Righteous Dopefiend
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To Repair the World
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Illegality, Inc.
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Shadows of War
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When Bodies Remember
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Chechnya
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Partner to the Poor
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Archaeology as Political Action
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Annihilating Difference
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My Name Is Jody Williams
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Counting the Dead
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The United States of War
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Leave If You Can
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Birthing the Nation
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Paradise in Ashes
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Exit Wounds
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Total Confinement
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Global Outlaws
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Driving after Class
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Blind Spot
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Dawn Rose on a Dead Body
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Call the Mothers
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Life in Traffic
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Democratic Insecurities
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Nuclear Ghost
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Dispossessed
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Deported to Death
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Returned
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They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields
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The Spectacular Favela
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Living with Difference
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Jornalero
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Making Global MBAs
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Fighting to Breathe
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The Spirit Ambulance
Alexander Laban Hinton is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University, Newark. He is the editor of Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide (California, 2002), Genocide: An Anthropological Reader (2002), and Biocultural Approaches to the Emotions (1999).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780520241794 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520241797 |
| Title | Why Did They Kill? |
| Author | Alexander Laban Hinton |
| Series | California Series In Public Anthropology |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 2004-12-06 |
| Number of pages | 382 |
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