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Genocide : an anthropological reader.
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ISBN: 063122355X 0631223541 Year: 2002 Volume: 3 Publisher: Oxford Blackwell

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Genocide: An Anthropological Reader helps to lay a foundation for a ground-breaking "anthropology of genocide" by gathering together for the first time the seminal texts for learning about and understanding this phenomenon.

Why did they kill? : Cambodia in the shadow of genocide
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ISBN: 0520241797 0520241789 9786612763052 1282763059 1598750097 9780520241789 9781417545208 1417545208 0520937945 9780520937949 9781417545209 9781598750096 9780520241787 9780520241794 6612763051 9781282763050 Year: 2005 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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Of all the horrors human beings perpetrate, genocide stands near the top of the list. Its toll is staggering: well over 100 million dead worldwide. Why Did They Kill? is one of the first anthropological attempts to analyze the origins of genocide. In it, Alexander Hinton focuses on the devastation that took place in Cambodia from April 1975 to January 1979 under the Khmer Rouge in order to explore why mass murder happens and what motivates perpetrators to kill. Basing his analysis on years of investigative work in Cambodia, Hinton finds parallels between the Khmer Rouge and the Nazi regimes. Policies in Cambodia resulted in the deaths of over 1.7 million of that country's 8 million inhabitants-almost a quarter of the population--who perished from starvation, overwork, illness, malnutrition, and execution. Hinton considers this violence in light of a number of dynamics, including the ways in which difference is manufactured, how identity and meaning are constructed, and how emotionally resonant forms of cultural knowledge are incorporated into genocidal ideologies.


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Transitional justice: global mechanisms and local realities after genocide and mass violence
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ISBN: 9780813550688 9780813547619 Year: 2011 Publisher: New Brunswick (N.J.) Rutgers University Press

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"The origins of this project date back to a 2007 symposium, 'Local justice : global mechanisms and local meanings in the aftermath of mass atrocity,' held at Rutgers University--Newark [N.J.] ... Several participants later presented papers in a session at the July 2007 meeting of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, which was held in Bosnia and Herzegovina."--Acknowledgments.


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The justice facade : trials of transition in Cambodia
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ISBN: 0191860603 Year: 2018 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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For survivors of the brutal Khmer Rouge Regime, western instruments of justice are small plasters on deep wounds. In Hinton's account of the subsequent international tribunal, only traditional ceremony, ritual, and unmediated dialogue can provide true healing.


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Man or monster? : the trial of a Khmer Rouge torturer
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ISBN: 9780822373551 0822373556 0822362589 0822362732 Year: 2016 Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press,

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During the Khmer Rouge's brutal reign in Cambodia during the mid-to-late 1970s, a former math teacher named Duch served as the commandant of the S-21 security center, where as many as 20,000 victims were interrogated, tortured, and executed. In 2009 Duch stood trial for these crimes against humanity. While the prosecution painted Duch as evil, his defense lawyers claimed he simply followed orders. In 'Man or Monster?' Alexander Hinton uses creative ethnographic writing, extensive fieldwork, hundreds of interviews, and his experience attending Duch's trial to create a nuanced analysis of Duch, the tribunal, the Khmer Rouge, and the after-effects of Cambodia's genocide. Interested in how a person becomes a torturer and executioner as well as the law's ability to grapple with crimes against humanity, Hinton adapts Hannah Arendt's notion of the "banality of evil" to consider how the potential for violence is embedded in the everyday ways people articulate meaning and comprehend the world.


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Transitional justice
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ISBN: 1283383284 9786613383280 0813550696 9780813550695 9781283383288 6613383287 9780813547619 081354761X Year: 2010 Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Press

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"The origins of this project date back to a 2007 symposium, 'Local justice : global mechanisms and local meanings in the aftermath of mass atrocity,' held at Rutgers University--Newark [N.J.] ... Several participants later presented papers in a session at the July 2007 meeting of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, which was held in Bosnia and Herzegovina."--Acknowledgments.

Annihilating difference : the anthropology of genocide
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ISBN: 6611786317 1281786314 9786611786311 1435678133 6000006497 160750345X 9781607503453 9781435678132 9781597344685 1597344680 158603880X 9781586038809 9786612758966 1282758969 0520927575 9780520927575 0585422613 9780585422619 9781282758964 9780520230286 0520230280 9780520230293 0520230299 0520230280 0520230299 6612758961 Year: 2002 Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press,

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Genocide is one of the most pressing issues that confronts 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 ground breaking book, the first collection of original essays on genocide to be published in anthropology, explores a wide range of cases, including Nazi Germany, Cambodia, Guatemala, Rwanda, and Bosnia.


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Man or Monster? : The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer
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ISBN: 147809110X Year: 2016 Publisher: Durham NC : Duke University Press,

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During the Khmer Rouge's brutal reign in Cambodia during the mid-to-late 1970s, a former math teacher named Duch served as the commandant of the S-21 security center, where as many as 20,000 victims were interrogated, tortured, and executed. In 2009 Duch stood trial for these crimes against humanity. While the prosecution painted Duch as evil, his defense lawyers claimed he simply followed orders. In Man or Monster? Alexander Hinton uses creative ethnographic writing, extensive fieldwork, hundreds of interviews, and his experience attending Duch's trial to create a nuanced analysis of Duch, the tribunal, the Khmer Rouge, and the after-effects of Cambodia's genocide. Interested in how a person becomes a torturer and executioner as well as the law's ability to grapple with crimes against humanity, Hinton adapts Hannah Arendt's notion of the "banality of evil" to consider how the potential for violence is embedded in the everyday ways people articulate meaning and comprehend the world. Man or Monster? provides novel ways to consider justice, terror, genocide, memory, truth, and humanity.


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Anthropological witness : lessons from the Khmer Rouge tribunal
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ISBN: 9781501765711 Year: 2022 Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press,

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'Anthropological Witness' tells the story of Alexander Laban Hinton's encounter with an accused architect of genocide and, more broadly, Hinton's attempt to navigate the promises and perils of expert testimony. In March 2016, Hinton served as an expert witness at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, an international tribunal established to try senior Khmer Rouge leaders for crimes committed during the 1975-79 Cambodian genocide. His testimony culminated in a direct exchange with Pol Pot's notorious right-hand man, Nuon Chea, who was engaged in genocide denial. 'Anthropological Witness' looks at big questions about the ethical imperatives and epistemological assumptions involved in explanation and the role of the public scholar in addressing issues relating to truth, justice, social repair, and genocide.

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