Alexander Laban Hinton (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520230286
- eISBN:
- 9780520927575
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520230286.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, African Cultural Anthropology
Genocide is one of the most pressing issues that confront us today. Its death toll is staggering: over one hundred million dead. Because of their intimate experience in the communities where genocide ...
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Genocide is one of the most pressing issues that confront 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 explores a wide range of cases, including Nazi Germany, Cambodia, Guatemala, Rwanda, and Bosnia.Less
Genocide is one of the most pressing issues that confront 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 explores a wide range of cases, including Nazi Germany, Cambodia, Guatemala, Rwanda, and Bosnia.
