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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書目詳細資料
主要作者: Hinton, Alexander Laban
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: Berkeley : University of California Press ©2005.
叢編:California series in public anthropology ; 11.
在線閱讀:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pp9zp
書本目錄:
  • 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.