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Article: Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide.(Book Review)
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- Ethics & International Affairs
- Article date:
- April 1, 2003
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Alexander Laban Hinton, ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), 419 pp., $60 cloth, $24.95 paper.
What does anthropology have to teach us about genocide? This is the framing question of Annihilating Difference, a collection of fifteen essays on topics as broad in coverage as the discipline itself. Hinton, a specialist on Cambodia at Rutgers University, has divided the book into five parts. The first contains two chapters on genocide and indigenous peoples; the second briefly examines the role of anthropology in National Socialism; the third has three local case studies of genocide; the fourth examines instances of post-genocidal reckoning; and the ...