Genocide: An Anthropological Reader

Introduction: Genocide and Anthropology: Alexander Laban Hinton.

Part I: Conceptual Foundations.

1. Genocide. ( Raphaël Lemkin).

2. Text of the UN Genocide Convention.

3. Genocide: Its Political Use in the Twentieth Century. (Leo Kuper).

4. Genocide: A Sociological Perspective. (Helen Fein).

5. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. (Hannah Arendt).

6. Modernity and the Holocaust. (Zygmunt Bauman).

Part II: Genocide, History, and Modernity.

7. Victims of Progress. (John H. Bodley).

8. Culture of Terror – Space of Death: Roger Casement's Putumayo Report and the Explanation of Torture. (Michael Taussig).

9. National Socialist Germany. (Eric R. Wolf).

Part III: Manufacturing Difference and "Purification".

10. "Ethnic Cleansing": A Metaphor for Our Time? (Akbhar S. Ahmed).

11. Imagined Communities and Real Victims: Self-Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in Yugoslavia. (Robert M. Hayden).

12. A Head for an Eye: Revenge in the Cambodian Genocide. (Alexander Laban Hinton).

13. Dead Certainty: Ethnic Violence in the Era of Globalization: Arjun Appadurai.

Part IV: Coping and Understanding.

14. Fear as a Way of Life. (Linda Green).

15. The Myth of Global Ethnic Conflict. (John R. Bowen).

16. Speechless Emissaries: Refugees, Humanitarianism, and Dehistoricization. (Liisa H. Malkki).

Appendix: Websites on Genocide.

Index.