Genocide

Alexander Laban Hinton is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and a faculty fellow in the Center for Global Change and Governance at Rutgers University, Newark. He is the editor of Biocultural Approaches to the Emotions (1999) and Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide (2002), an edited collection of new research articles

"An excellent contribution to the field of genocide studies: lucid, wide-ranging, and accessible; should be a core text in any course on genocide." Roger W. Smith, The College of William and Mary "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 viiIntroduction: Genocide and Anthropology 1Alexander Laban HintonPart I: Conceptual Foundations 251. Genocide 27Raphaël Lemkin2. Text of the UN Genocide Convention 433. Genocide: Its Political Use in the Twentieth Century 48Leo Kuper4. Genocide: A Sociological Perspective 74Helen Fein5. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil 91Hannah Arendt6. Modernity and the Holocaust 110Zygmunt BaumanPart II: Genocide, History, and Modernity 1357. Victims of Progress 137John H. Bodley8. Culture of Terror – Space of Death: Roger Casement's Putumayo Report and the Explanation of Torture 164Michael Taussig9. National Socialist Germany 19Eric R. WolfPart III: Manufacturing Difference and "Purification" 20910. "Ethnic Cleansing": A Metaphor for Our Time? 211Akbhar S. Ahmed11. 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 254Alexander Laban Hinton13. Dead Certainty: Ethnic Violence in the Era of Globalization 286Arjun AppaduraiPart IV: Coping and Understanding 30514. Fear as a Way of Life 307Linda Green15. The Myth of Global Ethnic Conflict 334John R. Bowen16. Speechless Emissaries: Refugees, Humanitarianism, and Dehistoricization 344Liisa H. MalkkiAppendix: Websites on Genocide 368Index 370