Genocide: truth, memory, and representation

What is an anthropology of genocide? : reflections on field research with Maya survivors in Guatemala / Victoria Sanford -- Perverse outcomes : international monitoring and the perpetuation of violence in Sudan / Sharon E. Hutchinson -- Whose genocide? whose truth? representations of victim and perp...

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Contributors: Hinton, Alexander Laban 1963- (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: Durham, NC [u.a.] Duke Univ. Press 2009
In:Year: 2009
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Summary:What is an anthropology of genocide? : reflections on field research with Maya survivors in Guatemala / Victoria Sanford -- Perverse outcomes : international monitoring and the perpetuation of violence in Sudan / Sharon E. Hutchinson -- Whose genocide? whose truth? representations of victim and perpetrator in Rwanda / Jennie E. Burnet -- A politics of silences : violence, memory, and treacherous speech in post-1965 Bali / Leslie Dwyer -- The limits of empathy : emotional anesthesia and the museum of corpses in post-Holocaust Germany / Uli Linke -- Forgotten Guatemala : genocide, truth, and denial in Guatemala's Oriente / Debra Rodman -- Addressing the legacies of mass violence and genocide in Indonesia and East Timor: Truth, memory, and corruption / Elizabeth Drexler -- Mediated hostility : media, affective citizenship, and genocide in northern Nigeria / Conerly Casey -- Cleansed of experience? : genocide, ethnic cleansing, and the challenges of anthropological representation / Pamela Ballinger -- Epilogue : the imagination of genocide / Antonius C.G.M. Robben
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:340 S. Ill. 25 cm
ISBN:9780822343882
9780822344056