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Introduction: Genocide and Anthropology / Alexander Laban Hinton 1 Pt. I Conceptual Foundations 25 1 Genocide / Raphael Lemkin 27 2 Text of the UN Genocide Convention 43 3 Genocide: Its Political Use in the Twentieth Century / Leo Kuper 48 4 Genocide: A Sociological Perspective / Helen Fein 74 5 Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil / Hannah Arendt 91 6 Modernity and the Holocaust / Zygmunt Bauman 110 Pt. II Genocide, History, and Modernity 135 7 Victims of Progress / John H. Bodley 137 8 Culture of Terror - Space of Death: Roger Casement's Putumayo Report and the Explanation of Torture / Michael Taussig 164 9 National Socialist Germany / Eric R. Wolf 192 Pt. III Manufacturing Difference and "Purification" 209 10 "Ethnic Cleansing": A Metaphor for Our Time? / Akbar S. Ahmed 211 11 Imagined Communities and Real Victims: Self-Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in Yugoslavia / Robert M. Hayden 231 12 A Head for an Eye: Revenge in the Cambodian Genocide / Alexander Laban Hinton 254 13 Dead Certainty: Ethnic Violence in the Era of Globalization / Arjun Appadurai 286 Pt. IV Coping and Understanding 305 14 Fear as a Way of Life / Linda Green 307 15 The Myth of Global Ethnic Conflict / John R. Bowen 334 16 Speechless Emissaries: Refugees, Humanitarianism, and Dehistoricization / Liisa H. Malkki 344 App.: Websites on Genocide 368 Index

During the 20th century tens of millions of people were annihilated by genocidal regimes. As we enter the 21st century, we must look back and attempt to comprehend what has been aptly termed the "century of genocide." It is only through such understanding that we can begin to imagine ways of preventing or minimizing future atrocities. " Genocide: An Anthropological Reader" lays the 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. While scholars in other fields have conducted excellent analyses of the macrolevel factors facilitating genocide, few have been able to approach genocide from the local perspective. By filling this important niche-pulling together key anthropological and interdisciplinary sources on genocide - "Genocide: An Anthropological Reader" stands both to make an important contribution to our understanding of genocide and to serve as a valuable resource for readers across a wide variety of fields.