Genocide

Truth, Memory, and Representation
Herausgeber: Hinton, Alexander Laban

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Produktbeschreibung

Ethnographic studies of what happens to societies after genocide, how these devastating events are remembered on the individual and collective levels, and how these rememberings intersect or diverge as rulers of post-genocidal states attempt to produce a

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Leading anthropologists consider issues of truth, memory, and representation in the aftermath of genocides in the Balkans, Guatemala, Indonesia, East Timor, Germany, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Sudan.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9780822344056
• ISBN-10: 082234405X
• Artikelnr.: 25942390

Autorenporträt

Alexander Laban Hinton is Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights and Associate Professor of Anthropology and Global Affairs at Rutgers University, Newark. He is the author of Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide and editor of Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide. Kevin Lewis O’Neill is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Genocide, Truth, Memory, and Representation: An Introduction / Kevin Lewis
O'Neill and Alexander Laban Hinton 1
Part 1. Truth/Memory/Representation
1. What Is an Anthropology of Genocide? Reflections on Field Research with
Maya Survivors in Guatemala / Victoria Sanford 29
2. Perverse Outcomes: International Monitoring and the Perpetuation of
Violence in Sudan / Sharon E. Hutchinson 54
3. Whose Genocide? Whose Truth? Representations of Victim and Perpetrator
in Rwanda / Jennie E. Burnet 80
Part 2. Truth/Memory/Representation
4. A Politics of Silences: Violence, Memory, and Treacherous Speech in
Post-1965 Bali / Leslie Dwyer 113
5. The Limits of Empathy: Emotional Anesthesia and the Museum of Corpses in
Post-Holocaust Germany / Uli Linke 147
6. Forgotten Guatemala: Genocide, Truth, and Denial in Guatemala's Oriente
/ Debra Rodman 193
Part 3. Truth/Memory/Representation
7. Addressing the Legacies of Mass Violence and Genocide in Indonesia and
East Timor: Truth, Memory, and Corruption / Elizabeth Drexler 219
8. Mediated Hostility: Media, Affective Citizenship, and Genocide in
Northern Nigeria / Conerly Casey 247
9. Cleansed of Experience? Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and the Challenges
of Anthropological Representation / Pamela Ballinger 279
Epilogue: The Imagination of Genocide / Antonius C. G. M. Robben 317
Contributors 333
Index 339