Genocide (eBook, PDF)

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

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Produktbeschreibung

What happens to people and the societies in which they live after genocide? How are the devastating events remembered on the individual and collective levels, and how do these memories intersect and diverge as the rulers of postgenocidal states attempt to produce a monolithic "e;truth"e; about the past? In this important volume, leading anthropologists consider such questions about the relationship of genocide, truth, memory, and representation in the Balkans, East Timor, Germany, Guatemala, Indonesia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sudan, and other locales.Specialists on the societies about which they write, these anthropologists draw on ethnographic research to provide on-the-ground analyses of communities in the wake of mass brutality. They investigate how mass violence is described or remembered, and how those representations are altered by the attempts of others, from NGOs to governments, to assert "e;the truth"e; about outbreaks of violence. One contributor questions the neutrality of an international group monitoring violence in Sudan and the assumption that such groups are, at worst, benign. Another examines the consequences of how events, victims, and perpetrators are portrayed by the Rwandan government during the annual commemoration of that country's genocide in 1994. Still another explores the silence around the deaths of between eighty and one hundred thousand people on Bali during Indonesia's state-sponsored anticommunist violence of 1965-1966, a genocidal period that until recently was rarely referenced in tourist guidebooks, anthropological studies on Bali, or even among the Balinese themselves. Other contributors consider issues of political identity and legitimacy, coping, the media, and "e;ethnic cleansing."e; Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Representation reveals the major contribution that cultural anthropologists can make to the study of genocide.Contributors. Pamela Ballinger, Jennie E. Burnet, Conerly Casey, Elizabeth Drexler, Leslie Dwyer, Alexander Laban Hinton, Sharon E. Hutchinson, Uli Linke, Kevin Lewis O'Neill, Antonius C. G. M. Robben, Debra Rodman, Victoria Sanford

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 349
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822392361
• Artikelnr.: 54936764

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