Why did they kill? : Cambodia in the shadow of genocide /
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 t...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Język: | angielski |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©2005.
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| Seria: | California series in public anthropology ;
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| Dostęp online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pp9zp |
Spis treści:
- Introduction : in the shadow of genocide
- The prison without walls
- A head for an eye : Disproportionate Revenge
- Power, patronage, and suspicion
- In the shade of Pol Pot's umbrella
- The fire without smoke
- The DK social order
- Manufacturing difference
- The dark side of face and honor
- Conclusion : why people kill.